Category Manager/Data Analytics Lead

FoodScience is seeking a Category Manager / Data Analytics Lead to transform complex data into actionable insights that drive category growth, retail performance, and long-term brand strategy. This is a high-impact analytics role that directly influences commercial decision-making across ecommerce, retail, and omni-channel environments.

FoodScience offers 9 paid holidays per year, including your birthday! One paid week off during our yearly plant shutdown, and a competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) program that starts to accrue immediately. Our benefits include health insurance with options for a Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), life insurance, dental, vision, and a variety of other additional insurance options to fit your needs. Other perks include employee discounts and professional development. You’ll work with a supportive, experienced team that wants to see you succeed.

This role serves as the internal category and analytics subject matter expert, responsible for enabling annual brand and retail line reviews, identifying innovation and distribution opportunities, and supporting long-range growth strategies through advanced business and shopper insights.

This is a strategic analytics role with direct influence on revenue growth, market share expansion, and innovation planning.

What You’ll Own

Category & Performance Analytics

• Lead category performance analysis across key customers, channels, and platforms
• Identify growth opportunities, risks, and emerging trends
• Analyze omni-channel performance, including digital shelf metrics and ecommerce conversion drivers
• Evaluate syndicated data, retailer analytics, and internal business performance datasets

Insight Translation & Business Strategy

• Translate shopper, consumer, and marketplace data into clear, actionable recommendations
• Support annual brand planning and retail line review processes
• Provide insights that inform innovation, portfolio optimization, assortment strategy, and pricing decisions
• Deliver post-campaign and promotional performance analysis to improve future effectiveness

Reporting & Data Infrastructure

• Develop and maintain category dashboards, scorecards, and reporting frameworks
• Improve visibility and accessibility of data across cross-functional teams
• Identify and implement process improvements that enhance reporting efficiency and analytical accuracy
• Collaborate with external data partners and analytics platforms to elevate insight capabilities

Cross-Functional Influence

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Ecommerce, Brand, and Finance teams to support revenue growth and strategic planning
• Develop insight-driven presentations and category reviews for internal and customer-facing teams
• Serve as a trusted analytics partner across commercial functions

Required Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in category management, shopper insights, business analytics, ecommerce analytics, or related commercial analytics roles
• Experience working with syndicated data sources such as Nielsen, IRI/Circana, SPINS, or similar datasets
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis functions
• Experience analyzing ecommerce and digital shelf performance metrics (Stackline,Profitero, One Click Retail,Pacvue, etc. preferred)
• Experience building dashboards or using visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau preferred
• Demonstrated ability to translate data into clear business recommendations
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, Analytics, Data Science, or related field preferred

What Success Looks Like

• Delivery of insights that drive measurable revenue growth and category improvement
• Clear, accurate, and impactful reporting dashboards adopted across teams
• Demonstrated influence on brand strategy, customer planning, and innovation initiatives
• Improved data visibility and cross-functional decision confidence
• Proactive identification of growth opportunities and performance risks

A Little About FoodScience

At FoodScience®, we have one important mission: Helping people and pets live healthier lives. For nearly 50 years, that has meant making the highest quality nutritional supplements and products, but it also extends to the care we provide our customers, the workplace culture we nurture and the local community we connect to. FoodScience® is the research and innovation engine behind the trusted brands used by doctors and veterinarians. Their integrity and commitment are an extension of our own. It’s all about helping our customers, our employees, our community and their pets thrive. Whether it’s producing the highest quality, most effective nutritional supplements and products available, or providing a satisfying and engaging work environment, we’re always focused on our endeavor to inspire healthy lives.

We provide a competitive benefits package and good jobs while maintaining a robust social responsibility program that supports programs and organizations that make our community vibrant all while providing outstanding service that shines though in every customer interaction.

FoodScience provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, parental status, crime victims or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

FoodScience provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, parental status, crime victims or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.