Grocery Promotional Analyst
POSITION SUMMARY:
Develop effective allocations using the Enterprise Allocator (EA) toolset that maximizes corporate resources in logistics and operations while also maximizing margin and sell through at stores. Develop and follow best practices to ensure that the right products are in the right stores. Work closely with Category Management teams to understand the desired plan for products.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Works with both Corporate Brand and National Brand products.
- Runs and analyzes past, present and future allocations to identify trends and opportunities for future improvements.
- Uses post analysis and best practices to improve future performance and effectiveness.
- Requests data from all external and internal partners to provide complete and detailed analysis of promotions.
- Develop and present allocations that have the greatest potential to improve sales and margins at the store and division level.
- Monitors product sales, margins, and store level sell through and report on the effectiveness of the allocations.
- Fosters and develops a professional consultative relationship with key internal and external stake holders to ensure all inputs are being considered and shared objectives are being met.
- Provide feedback on the allocation process and recommend opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the system or future process.
- Organizes, maintains, produces and distributes forms, reports and other documents as identified by the key stake holders in the assigned class.
- Establishes schedules and deadlines to keep current and upcoming priorities and deliverables transparent for all key stake holders within the Category Management team.
- Ensure that all Kroger and PL Marketing processes for sales planning and allocating product are followed.
- Maintains a flexible approach and schedule to effectively respond to the changing needs of the customer.
Must be able to perform essential job function of this position with or without reasonable accommodations