Sr. Analyst, Sales & Commercial Capabilities

Overview

Provide analytical and category management support to the Walmart NAF Category Advisor team, with a primary focus on ISF Bakeries, translating retailer, consumer, and market information into actionable recommendations that strengthen in-store execution and drive total category growth.

What you'll do

• Strengthen recurring analytics, address data access or quality issues, and provide timely support on ad hoc requests from Walmart.
• Provide analysis to improve shelf assortment and measure the impact of those changes.
• Assist in relay support via drawing for in-store merchandising mods, covering shelf design and assortment.
• Build clear, fact-based category stories and recommendations.
• Drive actionable insights and strategic category recommendations to drive total category growth.
• Deliver accurate, complete work within agreed timelines by clarifying request requirements, validating data and logic, and setting clear expectations with stakeholders.
• Manage multiple recurring and ad hoc deliverables, prioritizing effectively and communicating progress, dependencies, and risks.
• Identify opportunities to simplify reporting, strengthen data quality, and improve analytical processes and tools.
• Contribute to team productivity and continuous improvement by developing reusable approaches and sharing effective practices.
• Brand yourself as a SME on multiple fronts.
• Understand client needs and customer requests and see the larger picture to enable holistic solutions.
• Recommend and influence changes to process and procedures.
• Explore business development opportunities and transform them into tangible results.
• Communicate challenges in an assertive manner.
• Work through people and processes to accomplish superlative results.
• Articulate comprehensive presentations to the audience.

What you'll need

• Full-time graduation from an accredited university with a bachelor's degree.
• 4 to 5 years of relevant Business Reporting or Analytics experience in CPG (or related) industry.
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Tableau.
• Planogramming knowledge.
• Clear communicator and collaborative problem-solver who adapts to changing priorities, takes ownership, and builds trusted stakeholder relationships.

Nice to have

• Masters degree in Business Management, Statistics, Marketing, Retail or Economics, with 5 - 6 years of relevant Business Reporting and/or Analytics experience in CPG (or related) industry.
• Experience supporting Walmart or other large retail customers, with familiarity with Walmart data sources such as Luminate or Retail Link.
• Working knowledge of category management, shopper insights, assortment optimization, and in-store merchandising.
• Experience creating Relay drawings or planograms using JDA software.
• Demonstrated ability to turn complex category and consumer data into compelling, customer-ready stories and recommendations, and to assess their business impact.
• Experience managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships and improving recurring analytics, reporting, or business processes.

Details

• Location: Powai, Mumbai, MH.
• Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.