Category analyst vs senior research analyst

Differences between category analyst and senior research analyst duties and responsibilities

Category analyst example responsibilities.

• Help manage open-to-buy with planner weekly through inventory requests, markdowns, and transfers.
• Project manage and enhance IRI database including complete rework of all category classifications.
• Manage relationships with primary suppliers including monitoring and purchasing commodities, forecasting, marketing initiatives and quality control.
• Present findings to management from in-depth analysis of retail accounts using syndicate (IRI) and retailer proprietary data.
• Develop and standardize analysis process, integrating POS data from a broad spectrum of retailers in a variance demographic of clusters.
• Coordinate logistics activities relating to seasonal, agricultural, promotional, new items and discontinue programs.
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Senior research analyst example responsibilities.

• Manage research department employees and resources, operational budget preparation and oversight.
• Work with SAS to manipulate data and perform analysis by using macros, metadata, loops, counts and macro variables.
• Develop and automate front-end data querying and reporting tools for client presentations and reports in VBA and SQL.
• Conduct statistical analyses with SAS using grocery store scanner data of consumer package goods for test households throughout the U.S.
• Develop and redesign SQL databases for condensation and reporting efficiency.
• Analyze quantitative project data using SPSS and serve as statistical consultant for company.
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