Holders of the Guinness World Record for the "Largest Fireworks Display" ever recorded and "Largest Pyrotechnic Image", Fireworks by Grucci is a sixth-generation, family-owned and operated company. Known as "America's First Family of Fireworks," the Gruccis have transformed the night skies to the delight of millions across the globe since 1850. They are world-renowned for pyrotechnic artistry, scientific innovation and old-fashioned values. Their signature performances include the official celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the National Anthem “Star Spangled Spectacular,†in Baltimore, countless performances in and around Las Vegas, NV., seven consecutive U.S. Presidential Inaugurations; the Olympic Games in Beijing, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Lake Placid; commemorations such as the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty and star-studded extravaganzas including the grand opening of the Atlantis Dubai and the Palm Jumeirah Island in the United Arab Emirates. On New Year’s Eve 2013, a stunning performance displaying 479,651 fireworks made its debut above Dubai’s iconic skyline. The Gruccis achieved their “Largest Fireworks Display†title with this performance and smashed the Guinness Book of World Record’s preceding mark. Phil Grucci currently serves as President/CEO of Fireworks by Grucci, Inc. and Pyrotechnique by Grucci, Inc., the manufacturing entity of the Grucci group of companies.... |
As a Business Category Lead (BCL) on the Walmart business, you will use analytical skills to develop category and retailer data and insights through data analysis and reporting with a specific focus on our largest Retail Foodservice customer, Walmart. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering the most current category insights, competitive insights, category data analysis, shelving, assortment, and merchandising recommendations to drive the category at Walmart through the Walmart modular relay process.
In this customer facing role, you will be partnering closely with Walmart for their Retail Bakery department on activation initiatives. This role is responsible for advising the Retail Bakery buyer through the Relay process while providing the latest category performance and consumer insights. This is a role where you will significantly develop your analytical skills in a unique way as you learn Luminate data, Walmart’s new robust customer data source, and work towards enhancing your story telling skills as you leverage the vast amounts of data fields available from Shopper Data. In addition, you’ll develop your customer selling skills as this position allows for customer presentations throughout the Relay process, and leadership skills.
Strong candidates will work as a team, demonstrate strong communication skills, be detail oriented, demonstrate strong analytical skills, story-telling abilities, the ability to be proactive in digging into the data to develop a story or pull-out key insights, and the ability to influence to drive results.
Responsibilities
You will leverage your Foodservice and Retailer industry knowledge to develop insights from a broad range of information sources and formulate a cohesive story that enables sales growth:
Partner with Walmart Merchant teams to develop, plan and execute category activation initiatives, answer business questions and proactively develop actionable insights to drive category growth, grow sales and distribution while executing retailer objectives
Collaborate and leverage Consumer and Market Intelligence insights to gather and drive informed decisions and actionable insights with analytics for best-in-class support of retail customer
Develop and maintain suite of reporting tools to execute and strategize long-term growth and development of the retail bakery
Provide market performance and share information to identify business opportunities leveraging RetailLink, Nielsen & Luminate data sources
Develop capabilities with emerging resources to support the best ways of working with General Mills India Center (GIC), Cantactix, and dissemination of tasks and responsibilities.
Continuously develop Industry knowledge regarding trends, challenges, and opportunities
Take personal accountability and ownership for category results and prioritize what’s important
Interface with the customer on a regular basis to deliver consumer and category insights; participate in special strategic category projects intended to evolve or advance category management