Associate Category Manager – Target

VOLT•Minneapolis, MN

3d•Remote

About The Position

Volt is immediately hiring an Associate Category Manager. This is a full-time, contract remote opportunity. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree with 2-3 years of experience in Category Management, Customer Management, Insights, or Sales Strategy, with CPG experience required. The role involves driving category management principles through data analytics and consumer/shopper insights, using multiple data sources to develop reports, and becoming a key point of contact for customers by synthesizing data into clear insights and recommendations. The position also involves co-developing strategic business plans, conducting category decompositions, driving planogram development and implementation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support customer initiatives. Key responsibilities include weekly and monthly reporting, supporting category reviews, executing planogram activities, and supporting team and buyer priorities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
2-3 years’ experience in Category Management, Customer Management, Insights or Sales Strategy
CPG experience required
Knowledge and interpretation of syndicated data sources: Circana, Nielsen, POS/Panel, Loyalty Card Data, Numerator
Ability to develop strong relationships with external & internal partners to drive results
Understanding of client Assortment and Planogram execution processes
Ability to link analytics from traditional data sources with new capabilities and tools to develop insights into action
Strong working knowledge and execution of shelving standards and associated shelving software tools (JDA, POG Gen, etc.)
Excellent planning, analytical, and communication skills
Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel

Responsibilities

Drive category management principles through the application of strong data analytics and consumer/shopper insights.
Use multiple data sources to develop reports that include sales/share reporting, opportunity gap analysis, assortment assessment, planogram analysis, post promotion analysis, item tracking, pricing studies, financial performance, sales, and other performance trackers.
Become our customers’ first call for by synthesizing learnings from various syndicated data sources to create clear and impactful category insights and recommendations.
Co-develop strategic business plans and strategies for achieving category volume, contribution, and share objectives.
Conduct detailed category decompositions and deliver insights-to-action by identifying trends, opportunities, and challenges to core business areas in an extremely fast paced environment.
Drive planogram development and implementation to support the Category Strategic Growth Plan.
Work with teams across functions (Consumer Insights, eCommerce, Center of Excellence) to develop tailored solutions that support customer key initiatives.
Complete nearly 4,000 planograms within a 4–5-week window in January.
Complete another 4,000 planograms for seasonal Fall revisions around March.
Pull POS reporting for Target buyers every Monday and highlight key business drivers.
Pull the prior week’s ad recap and pricing details for Target.
Pull IRI share results at the beginning of each month and highlight key changes.
Own weekly and monthly reporting, including weekly category scorecards, pricing, digital performance, ad recaps; monthly Circana share reporting.
Support category reviews and transitions/revisions by preparing new-item recaps, seasonal analysis and post-revision results.
Execute planogram activities, including product library updates, prefill information, sales-by-store analysis, create and manage planogram folders, and own Shel IQ execution.
Support key team and buyer priorities including weekly buyer status follow ups, store walks, data pulls, promotional recaps.