Category Management Analyst jobs in Coeur D Alene, ID

Description

URM Stores, Inc. is looking for a talented Grocery Category Analyst to join our ever-growing team. Reporting to the Category Manager, the Category Analyst is responsible for analyzing specific categories to maintain the most competitive and profitable item mix for our Member Owners. You will leverage different sets of data, to help come up with actionable insights, that will directly impact the items we carry in our warehouse. These same insights will be used to come up with merchandising recommendations that our retail merchandising team will use when they are in our grocery stores.   

Essential Job Functions:

• Analyze sales data and market data to come up with merchandising recommendations.
• Create schematics for specific categories for our merchandising teams to use (training will be provided on schematic software).
• Track and manage assorted ledgers as needed for accruals and spend accounts.
• Assist the Category Managers with projects as needed.
• Communicate with vendors on all new item documentation and verify information is complete and accurate.  
• Create, manipulate, and correct new and discontinued items, and group/subgroup issues.
• Collaborate with the Procurement Department regularly, confirming all products are established and marked appropriately. 
• Monitor price and promotional changes from vendors and competition.
• Will require local travel to collect information from Retail Stores and Competition.
• Edit schematics as needed based on specific requests from our members.
• Work with vendors to make sure promotions have been submitted for new items.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Position Qualifications/Education:

• Experience with SAP Business Objects BI reporting, space planning software and AS400 preferred.
• 2 plus years of previous analyst experience preferred.
• Strong math, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
• Experience in Merchandising in the grocery industry; a combination of education and experience will be considered.
• Strong knowledge of the fundamental concepts and processes to support schematic development, assortment management, and retail implementation.
• Efficiently handle competing priorities and tasks, remain organized and meet deadlines.
• Successfully develop and maintain productive relationships with functional leaders as well as colleagues and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to plan, organize, multi-task, set priorities effectively and efficiently to proactively respond to changing demands.

You Belong Here!

We are proud to be a part of the number one food distributor in the Inland Northwest. Since 1921 URM has been a retailer-owned business. URM’s core business is the purchasing, warehousing, and delivery of merchandise inventory to its Member-Owners. The shareholders of URM are all retail grocers who provide groceries to their local communities. URM operates on a cooperative basis, which means that all its net earnings on business done with or for its member-owners through its Patronage Departments are allocated and paid to its Member-Owners in the form of patronage dividends. Over the years, sales volume has grown to over $1 billion and employment to over 2,900 employees at URM and its subsidiaries—Rosauers Supermarkets and Peirone Produce.

We work in a supportive team environment and in addition to our amazing culture, our employees enjoy many perks, and below are a few of the highlights of our complete compensation package:

• Salary range $22 - $27/hour DOE, plus all our employees enjoy: 
• Insurance Benefits – So that our non-union employees have more to take home from their paycheck, URM pays 100% of the Medical/Dental/Vision/RX Insurance premiums for the employee and over 93% for the employee’s dependents!
• 401k Retirement Plan with an amazing Company match up to 9% of your annual salary!
• Subsidized Life Insurance for employees and great rates for the employee’s family.
• Company paid Long-Term Disability insurance.
• Short-Term Disability and Cancer Insurance available.
• Life Flight Insurance at Special Rate.
• Great vacation plan!
• Six Paid Holidays and three Paid Personal Holidays.
• Paid Sick Days.
• Paid Volunteer Service Day! Get paid to volunteer at your favorite non-profit!
• Experience enjoyable Company sponsored activities through events like URM March Madness Brackets, Family Hockey Night with the Chiefs, Holiday Mingle & Jingle with great raffle giveaways, Summer Evening Wine & Music Event, and Winter Break Movie Night, which are just a glimpse of the fun we have to offer for employees and their families! 
• Plus, enjoy a variety of Corporate discounts, from gym memberships, cell phone plans, to computer discounts!  
• We also offer an Amazing Employee Discount Program at our Company-owned Grocery Stores!!!!

URM Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of Race, Religion, Color, National Origin, Citizenship, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Ancestry, Veteran Status, Genetic Information, or any other classification protected by state or federal law. We are also committed to providing a work environment that is free of all forms of discrimination, regarding recruiting, hiring, training, promotions, compensation, and all other conditions of employment. The selected candidate must be able to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, and drug test, as URM is a drug free workplace.