Job Description

Category Consultant

Searching for a Dynamic Category Consultant Role in a Growing Company - Working Directly with Buying Teams? Look No Further!

GLWAS Organizational Overview

Great Lakes Wine & Spirits is Michigan's largest alcoholic beverage wholesaler with over 1000 employees and locations across the state. We are a Michigan-based, family-owned company tracing its origins back nearly 80 years.

At Great Lakes Wine & Spirits, we utilize our best-in-class team, operational and sales expertise, and our ability to adapt to changing market conditions to bring wine and spirits to our customers and consumers efficiently and responsibly, while also maximizing the value to our suppliers.

Great Lakes Wine & Spirits strives to provide an ever-escalating standard of innovation and service throughout the great state of Michigan. The tradition of good business principles has remained the cornerstone of Great Lakes Wine & Spirits success - Honesty, hard work, fair dealing, service and an ongoing commitment to the customers and staff continue to be of the utmost importance both today and in the future.

Role Overview

The Category Consultant is a vital part of the Trade Development team and the sales organization. Within our team environment, this role encourages entrepreneurial action utilizing data to discover sales problems and develop executable solutions for our sales management teams and customers. This role works closely with our sales teams to discover opportunities and develop planograms, presentations, and reporting that will be used across the organization. This role also has potential upward mobility into our National Accounts teams or other parts of GLWAS that the candidate would be interested in.

Role Responsibilities

• You will utilize data and tools to tell actionable stories
• You will analyze market data, build presentations, and present findings / best practices to the sales organization
• You will create ad-hoc reporting for various management personnel - utilizing several sources
• You will continue to update already created business-critical internal reporting
• You will use Tableau to provide & update best-in-class analytics for key teams
• You will present wine and spirits opportunities to key customers
• You will draw planograms (POGs) for proposed wine and spirits departments
• You serve as the liaison for any JDA Space Planning questions

Role Qualifications / Requirements

• Relevant Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Prior experience within the Adult Beverage industry preferred
• Excellent analytical skills required
• Ability to tell a story and sell ideas and concepts utilizing data
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment with multiple priorities
• Ability to quickly learn and master new skills
• Ability to work entrepreneurially
• Strong Microsoft Office - specifically Microsoft Excel - skills required
• Prior experience with JDA Space Planning preferred
• Tableau experience a plus