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Austin, TX

Category Analyst

2 years experience
Technology & Digital
Data / Analytics
Posted:
December 28, 2025

Amazon

Consumer goods marketplace and technology platform
76.7
Palpable Score
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As an Analytics Partner, you will be responsible for delivering data-driven and actionable recommendations through our category-level insights process to drive business decisions. The ideal candidate has the ability to “tell a story” with their analysis, built across a variety of data-sources (transactional, market, competitor, and customer) to help stakeholders achieve their business objectives. With a strong analytical skillset, relevant experience (category and assortment management, retail operations, business analysis, etc), and knowledge of the Whole Foods Market product mix you will thrive in this role that is the ideal combination of art and science.

Key job responsibilities

• Utilizes advanced analytical methods to identify patterns, relationships, and trends across multiple data sources. Synthesizes information to construct a data-driven narrative with business-driving recommendations that can be understood and actioned-upon by a broad audience.

• Explains complex data and analytical approaches in simple terms that connect results with merchandising, customer, competitive, and marketing problems.

• Supports category-level insights, ad-hocs, and reports as needed.

• Collaborates with cross-functional partners across the analytics organization (assortment analytics, pricing, promotion, etc) and acts as project manager to translate stakeholder business questions into analyses that inform business decisions and align with business objectives.

Skills:

• Experience using multiple large enterprise databases to query and prepare data for analysis.

• Strong ability to translate data into actionable analytical insights which drive business decisions.

• Understands customer, market, and industry trends and emerging challenges.

• Demonstrates strong knowledge of the Whole Foods Market product mix, supply base, and retail operations.

• Communicates structured information in a clear, concise, and organized fashion. Tailors communication approach to specific situations and audiences.

• Able to effectively lead meetings, present information, and respond to questions in both one-on-one situations and group meetings.

• Advanced ability to plan, estimate, organize, and lead multiple projects.

• Collaborates with stakeholders and cross-functional Team Members at various levels of the organization to achieve business objectives by required deadlines.

• Builds trust and nurtures relationships with stakeholders.

• Impacts overall team effectiveness.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., analytics, statistics, applied mathematics, or computer science)
- 2-4 years of relevant experience (e.g. analytics, category and assortment management, retail operations, business analysis, or related fields).
- Experience using multiple large enterprise databases to query and prepare data for analysis. Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Tableau / QuickSight or other similar data visualization platforms, competitive databases (Nielsen).

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in Grocery / CPG business

About the company

Amazon

Company overview
Amazon runs a wide set of consumer and enterprise businesses, including online retail, Prime Video and other subscription services, advertising, devices, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon also builds large-scale software and infrastructure for logistics, payments, and cloud computing, and hires across engineering, product, operations, corporate functions, and frontline roles. Amazon’s early-career hiring spans both office-based teams and operational sites, which means “entry-level” can look very different depending on the org.

Locations and presence

Amazon has major corporate hubs in Seattle and Arlington (HQ2) plus large engineering and operations sites across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. For many corporate roles, Amazon’s stated expectation has shifted to five days per week in-office for office-based employees (with exceptions depending on role and site).

Palpable Score

76.7
/ 100
Amazon is one of the most accessible early-career employers at scale, with recurring internships and graduate hiring across many disciplines and geographies. Amazon also provides unusually clear public information about interview mechanics and publishes pay ranges on a large share of roles, which supports informed decision-making. The biggest drag on outcomes is the combination of high-performance culture signals and recent corporate job cuts, which adds risk for early-career stability depending on team and org.
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