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ABOUT MPG

Market Performance Group (MPG) is a leading end-to-end, strategy & services omnichannel commerce agency focused on creating the best PATH FORWARD — from market strategy to in-market reality — for today’s fastest-growing consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers. Over the years, we’ve built a strong reputation as a trusted partner and valuable resource to a broad range of companies, from Fortune 500 to Private Equity, in categories that include health & wellness, food & beverage, home and hardlines. We revel in the opportunity to guide our clients on their path forward, building and activating strategies that ensure success. Everything we do is driven by our unrelenting commitment to leverage our deep operational experience, unparalleled omnichannel expertise, and industry relationships to drive performance in today’s dynamic omnichannel marketplace.

At MPG, we value our people and their contributions; they are critical to building the MPG Brand. Our leadership team has significant experience driving topline revenue and bottom-line profit, having held senior operating roles at leading CPG manufacturers and retailers. Our highly regarded, seasoned team of 400 strategy and commercialization professionals brings strong operational experience and a collaborative approach. All team members are singularly focused on providing clients with pragmatic, real-world market approaches, built on the strong consumer, category and marketplace insights needed to create sustainable, profitable brand growth. For more information, please visit our website.

JOB OVERVIEW

The strong Sales & Category Sr. Analyst will be the data and analytics expert for clients, responsible for reporting and category storytelling through data-driven insights. Key to this role will be the ability to deliver best-in-class insights, presentations, and category/marketplace assessments to support client and internal sales analytical needs and to translate those insights into strategies and actions.

They will provide direct support and recommendations to teams through sales analysis, trend analysis, general reporting, insight generation, category dynamics, and consumer behavior from a variety of different data points. They will also serve as an analytic and category management expert using the category management process as a decision platform for all initiatives designed to optimize category performance at the customer(s) and channel. A successful candidate must be a self-motivated team player and demonstrate a relentless curiosity and a sense of urgency.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• •Develop and manage monthly category dashboards with recaps of where customers and clients should action
• •Weekly POS & inventory reporting (where applicable)
• •Leverage multiple syndicated and retailer data sources to develop category & shopper insights with recommendations
• •Tailor national category stories and category vision to specific customers based on customer/shopper insights
• •Bring a category voice perspective to customer conversations, line reviews, and strategic sales plans
• •Identify category trends, fair share, opportunity gaps, and share of wallet and leakage opportunities
• •Perform competitive analysis by category to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges to core business areas
• •Support Account Managers to drive business growth via sales storytelling, forecasting, promotional ROI and 4Ps analysis (price, promotion, assortment/product, place/distribution, and efficiencies)
• •Educate the customer and sales team on insights best practices, including category stories that influence customers to act

REQUIRED SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES

• •4-year degree preferred
• •5 years of Sales Analytics and/or Category Management experience with direct experience with syndicated sales/consumer data systems ie: NielsenIQ, IRI/Circana, Numerator, and retailer systems i.e. 1010 data.
• •Effective and efficient project management skills with the ability to prioritize, multi-task, & keep projects moving
• •Strong communication and collaboration skills
• •Knowledge of consumer products industry & category, brand, & retail strategies
• •Ability to listen, understand, & resolve competing priorities

BENEFITS

We offer a generous package of health benefits, medical, dental, vision, STD/LTD, paid maternity/paternity leave and life insurance.  Our compensation program provides market industry base salary, bonuses, 401K.  At MPG, along with paid holidays, we reward an employee’s extra efforts through unlimited paid time off.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

MPG is an organization driven by PEOPLE, and we know that with diversity comes results.  Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging was born from our core values.  It is our mission to foster a culture that celebrates inclusion and diversity in the workplace.  We believe that by leveraging the unique perspectives and experiences of our employees, MPG can unlock more comprehensive, innovative, and long-standing results for both our client and retailer partners. 

To ensure that our services and culture incorporate everyone’s unique experiences and perspectives, MPG will never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status

VACCINATION STATUS

MPG does not require candidates to be vaccinated when hired.  However, if the client the role is being hired to support requires all candidates to be vaccinated, MPG will require those candidates working with that client to be vaccinated.