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Kodiak Cakes

Senior Analyst, Category Management, Insights

Kodiak Cakes

. Own weekly and monthly reporting in Walmart Scintilla Charter, including modular, new-item, and quality merchandising reports .

Posted 11/6/2026full-timeBentonville • United StatesSenior💰 $85,000 - $95,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in category management and sales analytics within the consumer-packaged goods industry, leveraging data to create actionable insights and customer-facing recommendations. Proficient in utilizing Walmart-specific platforms and advanced analytical tools to drive performance and optimize merchandising strategies.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Category ManagementWalmart Data ExpertiseAdvanced Excel SkillsScintilla Charter ProficiencySyndicated Data Analysis

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Hard Skills
Sales AnalyticsData AnalysisReportingCategory Strategy DevelopmentPlanogram RecommendationsPerformance TrackingData PresentationCustomer InsightsMerchandisingAssortment Optimization
Soft Skills
Attention to DetailCross-Functional CollaborationInitiativePersuasive CommunicationTime Management
Tools & Technologies
Walmart Scintilla CharterRetail LinkItem 360CircanaNielsen IQSPINSPowerPoint
Industry Keywords
Consumer-Packaged GoodsRetailData AccuracyShelf ProductivityDistribution Gaps

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own weekly and monthly reporting in Walmart Scintilla Charter, including modular, new-item, and quality merchandising reports
  • Manage Walmart Retail Link and Item 360 access and item information, including setup, maintenance, and scalable reporting
  • Analyze retailer, syndicated, and shopper data to identify performance drivers, distribution and in-stock gaps, assortment opportunities, and ways to improve shelf productivity
  • Track and explain key performance indicators and category trends for Walmart and select additional customers
  • Develop category selling stories and planogram recommendations
  • Prepare customer-facing analytics for line reviews, innovation meetings, and ongoing discussions with Walmart merchants and other customer partners
  • Partner with Consumer Insights, Sales Planning, Supply Chain, Brand, Retail Media, and digital content teams
  • Apply retailer and shopper learnings to category strategies, innovation plans, and customer recommendations
  • Present data to customer merchants, account teams, and senior leaders
  • Travel to headquarters, Walmart meetings, and customer locations as required

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience in category management, customer insights, or sales analytics in consumer-packaged goods (CPG Industry), retail, or a related environment
  • Experience translating data into customer-facing recommendations
  • Experience in Walmart data and Scintilla is required
  • Experience with Scintilla Charter, Retail Link, Item 360 or similar retailer platforms is highly valued
  • Strong working experience using syndicated sources such as Circana, Nielsen IQ, or SPINS
  • Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Record of building reporting and communicating findings in a clear, decision-ready format
  • Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, analytics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Ability to act as a system expert for Scintilla Charter, Retail Link, Item 360 (Supplier One), and Nielsen IQ
  • Ability to build persuasive category stories and present data clearly
  • Category management judgment across assortment, distribution, shelf placement, space, merchandising, and innovation
  • Strong attention to data accuracy
  • Ability to work across functions, manage competing priorities, and take initiative
  • Willingness to travel to Kodiak’s Park City headquarters, Walmart meetings, and other customer locations as business needs require
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive health, dental, 401k, and wellness benefits beginning on the first day of employment
  • Annual discretionary bonus program
  • Medical/dental/vision plans
  • 401k match
  • FSA & HSA accounts
  • Life & ADD Insurance
  • Short Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Cell Phone & Internet Stipend
  • Relocation assistance
  • Annual Professional Development Stipend
  • Travel Reimbursement
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Employee Equity Plan
  • A company fleet of snowboards and other equipment
  • Wellness lifestyle allowance (B.E.A.R Bucks)
  • Mental Health Therapy Benefit & the Calm app
  • Free Kodiak Product
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Sick Leave
  • Early-out Fridays
  • Parental leave
  • Casual dress code
  • A variety of other Kodiak-unique perks