Assistant Category Manager

Inspire • Boston, MA

3d

About The Position

We're hiring 2 Assistant Category Managers! One will focus on Coffee & Espresso and the other on Non-Coffee Beverages. These positions will work with cross-functional teams to bring product offerings from ideation to testing, and then through launch and post-launch analysis. Support innovation pipeline development, menu renovations, and calendar planning for Dunkin'.

Requirements

• 4 Year Degree / Bachelor’s Business and/or marketing major preferred
• 1-2 years total work experience (internships included).
• Creative and strategic thinking
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work individually and with large cross-functional teams
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, multi-task, prioritize, and be detail oriented
• Project management
• Financial acumen
• Problem-solving agility
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills

Nice To Haves

• Food and beverage or CPG industry experience preferred but not required, especially in marketing, product development, or consumer insights roles.

Responsibilities

• Assist in identifying and staying on top of product trends through trend tours, secondary research, conferences/trade shows, and partnership with competitive intelligence team
• Partner with culinary team to ideate product innovation.
• Draft concept development briefs to start the product development process.
• Manage agendas and recaps for weekly meetings
• Partner with consumer insights team to evaluate opportunity size and determine positioning.
• Write idea and concept screeners to gauge consumer interest.
• Pull together business case including insights, competitive landscape, and target audience to align XF leaders on product kickoff
• Work with XF team of R&D, operations, supply chain, demand planning, QA, commercialization and legal to ensure products are ready for launch
• Manage updates in the product tracker capturing all product details
• Partner with operations team on in-store testing and evaluating product performance against set criteria
• Partner with category manager and brand marketing team to help identify which products to launch based on learnings through screeners or testing
• Lead through and submit product readiness materials including readiness templates, POS forms, profitability forms, marketing input forms, app forms, and product one-pagers.
• Review all output from cross-functional teams.
• Write product briefs to kick off XF partners for agency briefings
• Help identify and resolve project-related risks and issues throughout process
• Assist Associate Category Manager Bakery on all calendar-related activities above, as needed
• Partner with business analytics to measure and analyze the impact of programs, and assisting in field and franchisee communication and collaboration

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level