Customer Insights Analyst II / Senior Analyst

As a member of our category management team, you’ll work closely with our sales and marketing teams to help our customers make the most informed product and promotion decisions, using industry-leading research tools that identify consumer insights. The information you’ll provide is critical to our shared success.

Analyst II / Sr. Analyst Customer Insights

Category Leadership

Position Overview:

As an Analyst II or Sr. Analyst in Customer Insights on our Category Leadership Team, you'll play a key role in driving sausage sales by collaborating closely with sales, marketing, and retail customers. You'll provide valuable data insights, analysis, information support, and training. This position focuses on:

• Category insights, analytics, and strategy for Kroger and Albertsons
• Engagement with our sales and marketing teams and strategic retail partners
• Sausage category leadership and development
• Sausage selling capability and tool development
• Leveraging syndicated data and tools to provide insights that drive sausage revenue and profits

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates closely with our Marketing and Sales Teams, as well as strategic retail partners, to
  • Create and analyze marketing and sales reports using a variety of reporting tools and data sources
  • Develop and present customer-specific analyses that explain trends, identify distribution opportunities and define promotional best practice
  • Provide syndicated POS, panel, and customer card data to drive Johnsonville and category revenue and profits
  • Leverage pricing and assortment insights to accurately forecast volume and share based on price, promotion, or assortment changes
  • Track and evaluate new item launches and drivers of base volume 
• Build strong collaborative partnerships with cross-functional team members and research partners like Circana, Numerator, 84.51 and dunnhumby
• Develop and manage reporting, customization and utilization of customer specific data for Johnsonville
• Actively participate in key customer meetings

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required

Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience (for Analyst II) or 4 years of experience (for Sr. Analyst) in supporting Field Sales, Business Development, Category Management, Trade Analytics, or Revenue Management is required
• Experience working across multiple data sources, required
  • Syndicated POS and Panel data tool experience (i.e. IRI Unify, Nielsen Answers)
  • Customer POS and loyalty card data experience (i.e. 84.51, dunnhumby, Scintilla)
• CPG industry experience strongly preferred
• Familiarity with assortment, pricing, and marketing mix analyses desired
• Experience working with data partners on analytic projects preferred

Skills and Competencies:

• Great at analyzing data and solving problems with strong math and reasoning skills
• Advanced computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI, and other data visualization tools)
• Excellent communication, organizational, and presentation skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives from data
• Genuine curiosity and desire to ask, “what’s next?”
• Ability to contribute to a strong team environment with positive and constructive input and desire to improve the Category Leadership team and function
• Proven ability to build and maintain cross-functional relationships and work effectively with diverse teams
• Quick learner with the ability to adapt to new skills in a fast-paced, project-driven environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Commitment to continuous professional growth and development

Date:                                 March 24, 2025

Location:                          Global Sausage Headquarters, Sheboygan Falls, WI

                                           (Our office is about an hour north of Milwaukee)

Coach:                               Manager, Customer Insights

Member Status:              Full Time, Salaried

Travel:                               Up to 20% of your time

Reason for Posting:        New Position

Benefits:                           Members have potential for a monthly bonus, 401k with a company match and profit sharing. Members also have access to terrific benefits including affordable medical, dental and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; disability and life insurance; and fertility and adoption assistance. Johnsonville also offers competitive paid time off, including paid parental time off, as well as access to the 24/7 onsite fitness center, onsite medical clinic and tuition reimbursement! 

About our Company

Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has invented better ways to make, eat and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we are 3,000 Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!

How to Apply:  

External candidate:  Apply on-line only at: careers.johnsonville.com

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

We value the diversity of our workforce and we embrace the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment. M/F/Vet/Disability

Johnsonville values the service Veterans and their family members have given to our country.  We support the hiring of returning service members and military spouses.