Category Planning contributes to Cardinal Health's marketing strategy by assessing customer needs, market conditions, and competition. The Category Planning team is responsible for aggregating, reporting, and forecasting designated businesses and their P&L, supporting category management teams to build category financial plans that drive desired financial results.
Requirements
- Develop foundational reporting: Support the creation and maintenance of core reports and dashboards, balancing speed, accuracy, and usability.
- Understand the business need: Partner with internal teams and external stakeholders to gather data requirements, clarify the underlying business questions, and apply that context to tool creation.
- Scale solutions: Fulfill ad-hoc reporting requests while actively working to translate routine asks into scalable, repeatable reporting solutions.
- Drive tool adoption: Point stakeholders to'single source of truth' dashboards to provide visibility and avoid unnecessarily re-creating analyses.
- Support business data intake: Assist in integrating non-transactional data (e.g., category mappings, financial budgets, market data) into our reporting workflows, supporting standard intake processes and documentation standards.
- Ensure data integrity: Apply strong data hygiene and quality assurance discipline. Validate inputs and outputs using reasonableness checks, variance flags, and source reconciliation before releasing tools or insights.
- Build core acumen: Develop a deep familiarity with standard metrics, definitions, and assumptions to continuously build technical and business acumen, progressing toward full tool ownership.
- Leverage AI & Automation: Explore and promote early use cases for AI and automation to enhance reporting workflows and support faster business decision-making.
- Support business execution: Assist with meeting preparation by pulling relevant metrics, summarizing key insights, and highlighting open questions or risks for business leaders.
- Prioritize effectively: Manage workloads using agreed-upon criteria (business impact, urgency, effort, dependencies) and communicate tradeoffs early.
- Communicate proactively: Provide clear, continuous updates to stakeholders, confirming receipt of requests, communicating progress or blockers, and closing the loop with exceptional accuracy and attention to detail.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Build strong interpersonal skills with business partners, practice professional clarification and constructive pushback to ensure alignment on scope and deliverables.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Paid time off plan
- Health savings account (HSA)
- 401k savings plan
- Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Work-Life resources
- Paid parental leave
- Healthy lifestyle programs
