Shopper Based Design, Category Advisor

What role you will play in our team

The Shopper Based Design – Category Advisor, serves an assigned key retail customer with category management support. This role consults with unbiased insights, analytics and category reporting based on a variety of data sources for motor oil category.  Primary focused is on regular customer reporting, space planning, and major contributor to significant customer planning periods. Secondary focus is on shopper design solutions that improve shopper experience and category performance. This position is part of a growing Shopper Based Design team that is focused on improving the overall shopping experience for the motor oil category and the synthetic share leading brand Mobil 1 and more.

This role is based in Bentonville, AR working with retailers throughout North America. This position works under the direction of the Shopper Based Design Supervisor.  

What you will do

• Lead category projects from planogram refresh to redesigned overhaul
• Collaborate with and provide regular reporting for retailers to optimize space-to-sales, efficient assortment, for current and adjacent categories.
• Create meaningful solutions that solve shopper’s needs to improve the motor oil buying experience.  
• Analyze, create and recommend action and improvements for shoppers, customers and internal stakeholders
• Strengthen category competency for the organization and influence processes for efficiency and effectiveness.  
• Advance ways of thinking about the shopper journey, shopping decision trees, need states, barriers and opportunities both internally and with customers.  
• Participate in customer planning and contribute to customer presentations.  
• Support cross-functional partners with ad hoc needs while upholding the strictest integrity of confidential customer information     
• Assigned retailer(s) across all North American retail channels
• Develop process, plan, and deliver key needs ranging from urgent to a 3-year horizon
• Lead shelf-reinvention and category management, contribute to customer presentations  
• Leverage and integrate new forms of key in-store communication, education and navigation

About you

Skills and Qualifications

• 3+ years of recent experience leading category development projects
• Be a wizard with JDA or similar space planning software 
• Excellent organizational skills 
• Analytical skills (trend, data, financial)
• Effective communication skills (in-person, written, presentation)
• Project management and collaboration skills, direct customer interaction experience 
• Experience influencing without authority
• Proficient in MS Office, preference for those particularly skilled with creating impactful Excel tools and PowerPoint communication
• Proficient with supplemental data resources including syndicated data (IRI, Nielsen, NPD) and customer point of sale data
• Bachelor’s degree 
• Experience with a variety of categories and/or retailers
• Demonstrated resilience and ability to managing a complex workload
• Proficient with data visualization tools such as Tableau 

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

• Insatiable curiosity
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to influence with or without authority
• Ability to cycle between analytical and strategic situations
• Intuitive ability to prioritize work and operate with autonomy in ambiguous circumstances
• Business and retail acumen
• Adable, fast learner

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you: 

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life. 
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match. 
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. 
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing. 
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you. 
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.

More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

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 Exxon Mobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.