Sr. Category Analyst

Location: Onsite - hirify.global, Wisconsin, United States; approximately 10–20% annual travel to hirify.global manufacturing locations, customers, and the market.

Salary: $92,400–$141,000 annually, plus performance bonus/variable incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global manufactures products and operates a global organization of more than 30,000 associates focused on innovation and sustainable living.

What you will do

• Own assigned category segments, initiatives, customer groups, or operating processes and exercise decision rights within agreed guardrails.
• Develop recommendations for pricing, forecasting, inventory, portfolio management, and business performance, presenting risks and opportunities to leadership.
• Build complex unit forecasts using point-of-sale, shipment, order, weeks-of-supply, macroeconomic, and customer inventory data.
• Identify supply shortages and excess, diagnose product-level root causes, and manage product transitions during launches and discontinuations.
• Lead pricing, portfolio, product performance, customer, consumer, competitive, and market analyses.
• Partner with Product Management, Channel Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Sales, and other functions on commercial and category decisions; coach Category Analysts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Three to five years of analytical or business-facing experience with a track record of high performance, data interpretation, and delivery of meaningful insights.
• Proficiency in Excel, data visualization tools, and AI tools.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to influence across functions and organizational levels.
• Curiosity, initiative, business judgment, accountability for outcomes, and the courage to move from analysis to recommendation independently.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice to have

• Experience in category management, product management, demand planning, supply chain analytics, finance, or commercial analytics.
• Working knowledge of new product development, manufacturing, forecasting, production planning, pricing, and category business management.

Culture & Benefits

• Day-one access to applicable benefit programs with no waiting period.
• Competitive total rewards supporting health and wellbeing.
• Career growth and development opportunities.
• Diverse and inclusive workplace with a culture of innovation.
• Full-time onsite role with approximately 10–20% annual business travel.