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Strategic Category Advisor - Walmart

Location(s)

Rogers, Arkansas

Company

Georgia-Pacific

Career Field

Marketing

Job Number

196106

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Senior Manager, Category Management - Strategic Advisor to serve as a dedicated, objective category advisor for Walmart, supporting a large and strategically important category with more than $12 billion in annual sales. This leader will be the primary category-management contact for the Walmart merchant team, own the long-term category vision and insight agenda, and translate shopper, market, digital, operational, sustainability, and regulatory intelligence into fact-based recommendations that grow the total category and improve customer experience. The role will lead a Modular Planner / Strategist and coordinate a broader network of analytical, shopper, digital, technology, legal, and regulatory resources.

What You Will Do

• Build trusted-advisor credibility with Walmart by bringing a category first, supplier-neutral perspective and clear, fact-based recommendations.
• Recommend fact-based category strategies and long-term growth plans across the physical and digital shelf, anticipating changes in shopper behavior, economic conditions, competitive dynamics, and sustainability.
• Serve as the primary merchant contact, establishing effective working rhythms and translating complex analysis into decision-ready recommendations and executive-level stories
• Set analytical standards for measuring category, modular, cluster, item, digital-shelf, and customer performance; ensure weekly, monthly, line-review, and ad hoc work is accurate, timely, and actionable.
• Synthesize Walmart Scintilla data with competitive market, customer, and macroeconomic information, working across a variety of sources to identify opportunities and risks.
• Apply artificial intelligence and advanced analytics responsibly to accelerate signal detection, automate repeatable analysis, improve scenario development, and increase the speed and quality of recommendations.
• Lead assortment, clustering, localization, transferable-demand, space-allocation, and shelving recommendations. Use planogram tools such as JDA / Blue Yonder to evaluate and guide executable, shopper-friendly modular solutions.
• Provide strategic oversight to the Modular Planner / Strategist, including prioritization, coaching, quality control, performance development, and coordination of third-party drawing support during peak modular windows.
• Guide web enrichment and item-content recommendations that improve findability, content quality, item attribution, conversion, fulfillment, and the connection between Walmart.com and the in-store experience.
• Develop omni competitive and customer insights, including market-share trends, assortment gaps, price and promotional context, customer needs, occasions, loyalty, switching, baskets, and market-level differences.
• Partner with internal experts to incorporate digital, sustainability, regulatory, technology, legal, and shopper considerations into objective category recommendations.
• Monitor emerging regulations and sustainability requirements and translate implications into objective category scenarios and recommendations.
• Drive continuous improvement through post-modular measurement, test-and-learn processes, documented learnings, and regular partnership reviews.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 7 years of progressive experience in category management, category advisory, retail analytics, merchandising, or a related consumer products discipline.
• Experience supporting Walmart, with demonstrated knowledge of Walmart merchant expectations, category-management processes, modular and line-review cycles.
• Experience using Walmart Scintilla and/or Retail Link to evaluate category, item, shopper, store, and omni-channel performance.
• Experience integrating syndicated and shopper data, including Circana or NielsenIQ, Numerator, Kantar, and other relevant sources, into objective recommendations and persuasive stories.
• Experience using planogram and space-planning tools such as JDA / Blue Yonder, with working knowledge of assortment optimization, demand transfer, clustering, space allocation, capacity, and modular design principles.
• Experience applying AI-enabled analytics or business-intelligence tools to improve reporting, insight generation, scenario analysis, or decision support.
• Experience influencing senior retailer and internal stakeholders through concise communication, executive presence, sound judgment, and compelling visual storytelling.
• Ability to travel approximately 10% based on business needs.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Prior experience serving as a category advisor, category captain, retailer merchant, or senior category-management leader for Walmart.
• Experience leading a large, complex category and influencing assortment, shelving, omnichannel, digital-shelf, and customer-experience decisions.
• Advanced knowledge of paper, household essentials, consumables, or a high-velocity consumer packaged goods category.
• Experience with customer-perception research, loyalty and switching analysis, test measurement, price elasticity, digital content health, and competitive assortment analysis.
• Experience leading through a matrix of analytics, insights, digital commerce, sustainability, regulatory, IT, Legal, and third-party partners.
• People-management experience, including direct-report development, work prioritization, performance coaching, and delivery through others.
• Master's degree in business, analytics, marketing, economics, or a related field.

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Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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