Analyst III, Category Insights & Analytics

About the role

Kraft Heinz's Category Leadership team leads with insights and acts with intention, turning shopper behaviour, consumer understanding and market data into strategies that shape shelves and drive value. As an Analyst III in Category Insights & Analytics, you support Category Leadership by developing data-driven insights, category reviews and analytical recommendations across brands, categories and customer teams. You act as an insights partner, collaborating with Category Leadership, Sales, Omni, Business Unit Strategy, Shopper Insights and other teams.

Key responsibilities

• Build engaging, data-driven category review decks and business presentations to support customer reviews, category planning and internal decisions.
• Analyse syndicated, customer, shopper, competitive and internal data (Circana, Nielsen, Kantar, Numerator and in-house tools) to find trends, shopper patterns, competitive dynamics, risks and growth opportunities.
• Understand the "why" behind category performance and connect trends to business drivers.
• Turn complex data into clear, compelling stories for Category Leadership, Sales, Strategy and Insights.
• Use PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI and other visualization tools to produce insight-led outputs.
• Support assortment, shelving, innovation, pricing, merchandising, sales performance and category growth initiatives.
• Deliver accurate, high-quality and timely reports and recommendations, and track post-review actions.

Required profile

• 5-8 years of experience in Category Management, Category Insights, Shopper Insights, Retail Analytics, Space Planning or a related analytics role.
• Intermediate experience with syndicated, shopper and retail data sources such as Circana, Nielsen, Kantar, SymphonyAI or similar.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving and attention to detail, with the ability to spot trends, opportunities and risks.
• Able to manage multiple priorities under tight timelines and to collaborate across cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.

Required skills

• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
• Working knowledge of Power BI or other data visualization tools.
• Nice to have: planogramming or space planning experience, familiarity with category growth strategies and assortment optimization, and experience with distribution metrics such as TDP and velocity.

What we offer

• Work with a leading Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) company.
• Collaborative, dynamic, insight-led work environment.
• Professional development and growth opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.