Analyzes consumer, shopper, customer, and market data to identify category trends and develop actionable recommendations. The role supports assortment, planogram, pricing, promotion, product placement, and omnichannel strategies while creating reports, presentations, and data-backed narratives for retailer partners. It collaborates with sales, trade marketing, category leadership, and customer teams, and serves as a consultative category expert in buyer meetings and joint business planning.
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
The Category Analyst is responsible for leveraging consumer, customer, and market data to develop actionable insights and drive strategic initiatives. It involves interpreting shopper data, optimizing product assortments and building trusted, consultative relationships with customer merchant teams.
This role supports Category Management for Mondelez and partners closely with cross-functional teams, including trade marketing, category leadership & sales.
The ideal candidate is highly analytical, collaborative, and experienced in insights & analytics.
Location: This role is fully remote with option to be based in the East or Midwest region due to regional customer responsibility.
How you will contribute
Insights and Data Analysis: Leverage syndicated data (e.g. Nielsen, Numerator, IRI) to extract actionable, data driven insights on category trends and shopper behavior.
Customer / Category Strategy Development: Support the overarching category vision helping to grow the retailer's total category and drive Mondelez business performance.
Cross Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships across the customer, sales, category leadership, trade marketing and omni channel activation.
More about this role
What extra ingredients you will bring:
Job specific requirements:
Travel requirements: 10% travel
Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $86,900 to $119,515; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
Shopper Insights
Insights
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
The Category Analyst is responsible for leveraging consumer, customer, and market data to develop actionable insights and drive strategic initiatives. It involves interpreting shopper data, optimizing product assortments and building trusted, consultative relationships with customer merchant teams.
This role supports Category Management for Mondelez and partners closely with cross-functional teams, including trade marketing, category leadership & sales.
The ideal candidate is highly analytical, collaborative, and experienced in insights & analytics.
Location: This role is fully remote with option to be based in the East or Midwest region due to regional customer responsibility.
How you will contribute
Insights and Data Analysis: Leverage syndicated data (e.g. Nielsen, Numerator, IRI) to extract actionable, data driven insights on category trends and shopper behavior.
- Generate weekly, monthly & ad hoc reports and presentations that translate complex data into clear, compelling data stories.
- Support modular and planogram evaluations and recommendations
- Build compelling, data backed narratives that influence retailer strategies, including pricing, promotions and new product placement
Customer / Category Strategy Development: Support the overarching category vision helping to grow the retailer's total category and drive Mondelez business performance.
- Act as an unbiased, consultative category expert and trusted advisor during customer buyer meetings.
- Evaluate and improve the shopping experience across both physical brick and mortar stores and digital / ecommerce platforms.
- Develop and synthesize market research and behavioral data into clear, actionable presentations and reports acting as a snacking thought leader within Mondelez and with our merchant partners.
Cross Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships across the customer, sales, category leadership, trade marketing and omni channel activation.
- Experience in presenting to retailer teams and participating in joint business planning / joint value creation a plus
More about this role
What extra ingredients you will bring:
- Proven track of collaborating across internal teams
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Project management and organizational skills a must
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
Job specific requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in Category Management, Insights or Analytics (CPG/FMCG industry experience required)
- Strong analytical and storytelling skills required
- Experience with syndicated data sources (Nielsen, Numerator)
- Experience in using retailer data, shopper insights and analytics to develop comprehensive customer strategy and plans
- Knowledge in analyzing and creating visualizations of large amounts of data
- Experience developing customer facing presentations
- Experience with Crisp reporting & automation a plus
- eCommerce / Omnichannel experience a plus
- JDP / POG development & analysis experience a plus
- High proficiency in Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint
Travel requirements: 10% travel
Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $86,900 to $119,515; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
Shopper Insights
Insights
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