Lars W. Kanoy
Assistant Category Manager
Des Moines, IA · (515) 555 0121 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/larswkanoy
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Two years supporting category management in midwest retail
INDUSTRIES
Regional retail chains, grocery and household goods
SPECIALTIES
Sell through reporting, planogram support, vendor meeting preparation, new item setup
SYSTEMS
Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Circana, Blue Yonder Category Management
CREDENTIALS
Certified Professional Category Analyst, Category Management Association
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in marketing, Iowa State University
Executive Summary
Assistant category manager two years into household and paper goods for a midwest retail group. Supports one category manager across sixty one stores with weekly sell through reporting, planogram work and vendor meeting preparation. Comfortable in Circana data and Microsoft Excel, and learning the open to buy side of the job.
Signature Achievements
- Built a weekly sell through dashboard in Power BI that replaced four manual spreadsheets and saved the category team six hours a week.
- Identified sixty two slow moving household items through weeks of supply analysis, supporting a delist that freed two feet of shelf per store.
- Prepared the data package for a paper goods category review that won an additional one hundred ten thousand dollars in vendor promotional support.
- Raised planogram compliance in the household aisle from seventy nine percent to ninety two percent by rebuilding the store audit checklist.
Professional Experience
Assistant Category Manager
Cornbelt Retail Group, Des Moines, IA 2024 to present
Supports one category manager across household cleaning and paper goods for sixty one stores in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska
- Produce weekly sales, margin, sell through and weeks of supply reporting for eleven subcategories.
- Pull and format Circana consumption data ahead of every category review and draft the opening analysis slides.
- Handle new item setup, cost change entry and discontinuation paperwork in the merchandising system.
- Track planogram compliance through store audit results and follow up with district managers on reset gaps.
Merchandising Coordinator
Hawkeye Market Partners, Ames, IA 2023 to 2024
Coordination support for a four person merchandising team at a regional retail services firm
- Scheduled resets and shelf tag production for forty client stores and confirmed completion with field teams.
- Maintained the promotional calendar and distributed event instructions to store managers.
- Kept the item master accurate for four hundred client items and corrected pricing and description errors weekly.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Professional Category Analyst, Category Management Association
Education
Bachelor of Science in marketing, Iowa State University
Core Skills
Sell through reporting · Weeks of supply analysis · Planogram support · Circana data · Microsoft Excel · Power BI · New item setup · Category review preparation · Promotional calendars