Category Analyst

**Job Overview:** Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is looking for a highly motivated, analytically minded professional to join its Center of Excellence (COE) Category Management team. A high-profile individual that’s inspired to make a difference. Someone that’s ambitious to contribute to the business right away. This individual will have high visibility to leadership supporting areas of the business. The Category Analyst plays a valuable role by assisting in providing consultative category guidance to deliver market leading growth across KDP Brands and Retail Partners. This individual conduct high quality analyses and synthesize multiple data sources to generate insights and actionable recommendations, while leveraging effective communication & influencing skills to orchestrate action within the HQ and Customer Facing teams. Key Responsibilities National Distribution Tracking (NDT) - Manage retailer item and distribution inputs for NDT across multiple customers. - Review and validate data submitted by category management teams to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness. - Partner with IT to troubleshoot data issues and maintain reliable reporting outputs. - Support reporting related to voids, new items, target items, and distribution performance. Category & Space Analytics Support - Conduct robust analysis using research, category management capabilities, analytical tools, and data visualization to identify and communicate business opportunities and challenges. - Assist with ad hoc analytical requests for customer-facing teams, including Fountain Food Service (FFS) stakeholders. - Support development and maintenance of JDA/Blue Yonder planograms and merchandising layouts. - Organize and analyze category performance data to support retail recommendations, elevating analyses beyond reporting to translate insight into retail action. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Serve as a liaison between category management teams, IT, shopper insights, and customer-facing teams, and develop relationships that establish KDP as the indispensable partner for category management needs. - Collaborate with internal cross-functional and customer-facing teams to develop both strategic and tactical solutions to business opportunities. - Help identify and remove process obstacles that impact execution efficiency. - Contribute to the creation and maintenance of recurring business review materials and insight decks. Reporting & Data Quality - Maintain spreadsheets, databases, and tracking tools used for distribution and category reporting. - Perform data audits and quality checks to ensure reporting integrity. - Provide category management reporting, trend analysis, customized reports, and special project work for the KDP cross-functional team and key stakeholders. - Support continuous improvement efforts related to reporting processes and workflow efficiency. What you will do: - Develop and cultivate business relationships with the Commercialization team that establishes KDP as the indispensable partner for all category management needs. - Deliver fully integrated consumer driven category leadership based on marketplace insights and trends to guide strategic choices and tactical executions. - Conduct robust analysis using research, category management capabilities, analytical tools, and data visualization to identify and communicate business opportunities or challenges - Collaborate with multiple internal cross-functional teams and the customer-facing teams on business opportunities and develop both strategic and tactical solutions - Assist in providing category management reporting, trend analysis, customized reports, and special project work for the KDP cross functional team and key stakeholders - Leverage critical thinking and problem-solving skills to recognize and anticipate issues and opportunities by elevating analyses beyond reporting and translate insight into retail action - Serve as the expert on all things category to cross-functional team me…