Associate Category Manager, Walmart Advisor

Danone

📍Rogers, AR
💰 $120,000 - $150,000
Posted May 21, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Associate Category Manager, Walmart Advisor

Company

Danone

Location

Rogers, AR

Work Type

On-site

Salary Range

$120,000 - $150,000

Job ID

li-4418042616

Job Description

About The Job
We're hiring for an Associate Category Manager, Walmart Advisor to join the team. This is a hybrid role located in our Rogers, AR office. In this role, you will serve as a leader, being an unbiased analytic and category management expert using the category management process as a decision platform for all initiatives designed to optimize category performance at the customer. This role will be the subject matter expert of the category performance, the planogram process, and data associated with the category. The Associate Category Manager works as a member of the Category Advisor Team to provide the resources needed to develop the category strategy to drive growth at the customer. Work closely with the Senior Category Manager to define the vision of the category. This position requires both data and business savvy, as well as effective communication and problem-solving skills to provide consultative category management to the customer. Create compelling, actionable category reviews that will captivate customers, translate to strategies, and grow category sales.

The salary range for this position is $120,000 – $150,000 USD. The exact salary offered will depend on several factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, geographic location, internal equity, and market conditions. Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options. To give our employees flexibility, Danone is a hybrid work environment.

About You
■ 4 year college degree in Business or related field (Finance, etc.)

■ 1-2 years previous experience in category management or within CPG industry with increasing levels of responsibility

■ 2+ Sales Analytics or Category Management

■ Prior experience managing / influencing people and relationships with retailer partners

■ Expert in syndicated data required, proficient in shopper/panel data and space

■ Space Planning experience a plus

■ Occasional travel

About Us
Life at Danone
With approximately 5,000 employees and 13 production locations across the U.S., our vibrant culture and endless growth opportunities are just a couple of the reasons our employees call themselves “Proud Danoners.”

Learn more about Life at Danone

Our Brands
When you join us, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world, including
Activia®, DanActive®, Danimals®, Dannon®, evian®, Follow Your Heart®, Happy Family® Organics, International Delight®, Light + Fit®, Nutricia ®, Oikos®, Silk®, So Delicious® Dairy Free, STōK® Cold Brew Coffee ®, Too Good & Co™, and YoCrunch®.
Our Purpose
We’re committed to making a positive impact on our world. Rooted in our mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we’re proud to be the world’s largest B Corp.

Learn more about our mission.

Our Benefits
Our commitment to making the world healthier starts with our employees.

  • Physical Wellbeing We pay for the majority of your medical benefits – which include medical, dental and vision – with our competitive 80%/20% cost-sharing model.

  • Mental Wellbeing Danoners receive fitness discounts, unlimited flexible time off and hybrid work schedules. We also have a range of programs that support mental health and substance abuse.

  • Financial Support We offer a performance-based bonus, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, employee discount programs and voluntary perks.

  • Family Care We offer caretaker benefits, 18 weeks of parental bonding, fertility, surrogacy, adoption benefits and pet insurance.

Learn more about our benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Danone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here.

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Interview Prep

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How do you leverage syndicated data to identify growth opportunities and build a compelling category review for a major retailer like Walmart?
  • 2.Walk me through your approach to the planogram process when optimizing category performance for a customer.
  • 3.As a Category Advisor, you must remain unbiased. How do you balance advocating for Danone's brands while remaining an objective category expert for the retailer?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to use data to influence a retailer partner to change their category strategy or planogram.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to collaborate with a senior manager to define the vision for a category. How did you align your strategies?
  • 3.Give me an example of a time you created a category review that captivated a customer and translated directly into a business strategy.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are presenting a category review to a Walmart buyer, and they push back, stating that your recommended planogram will disrupt their current shelf sets and require too much labor. How do you handle this?
  • 2.The Senior Category Manager is out of the office, and you notice a sudden, significant shift in shopper panel data indicating a change in consumer behavior that threatens the current category strategy. What do you do?

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Category ManagementSyndicated DataPlanogramWalmartCPGShopper InsightsSpace PlanningCategory StrategyRetailer Partner ManagementSales AnalyticsPanel DataCategory Review

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