Associate Category Manager

Unilever • Rogers, AR

6d • $88,600 - $133,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Category Manager delivers thought leadership and insights to drive solutions that accelerate growth for Unilever at Walmart, across Unilever Foods categories. You will partner at multiple levels within Unilever and the customer to influence, plan, and execute best in class category strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Category Management, Customer Management, Insights, or Sales Strategy, with customer-facing experience preferred
• Experience independently penetrating, persuading, and influencing internal and external touchpoints through clear, cogent, and concise communication
• Expertise in linking analytics via traditional data sources with retailer data and tools to develop planning insights into action
• Capability to develop category strategy at both retailer and manufacturer level and integrate into the planning process
• Strong understanding of marketing, sales, shopper insights, corporate strategy, and retailer strategy, operations, and planning, and ability to partner with each and integrate into category strategy/recommendations

Nice To Haves

• Extensive knowledge of syndicated data sources preferred (Circana, Nielsen, Numerator, Household Panel, Loyalty Card Data)
• Knowledge of Scintilla, JDA/Blue Yonder, building Plan o grams and Walmart’s modular process.

Responsibilities

• Deliver thought leadership and insights to drive solutions that accelerate growth for Unilever at Walmart, across Unilever Foods categories.
• Partner at multiple levels within Unilever and the customer to influence, plan, and execute best in class category strategies.
• Turn insights into action by providing differentiated thought leadership delivered through simplified stories, to influence category strategies.
• Elevate analyses beyond reporting to develop and translate insight into retail action.
• Penetrate multiple cross-functional teams and the customer to successfully influence action plans, aligned to category growth objectives, based on industry research, insights, and Unilever knowledge.
• Garner insights and develop solutions that drive incremental growth for the customer and Unilever, while influencing internally to design solutions for the customer.
• Manage multiple customers and tasks at the same time, while delivering recommendations for growth for both Unilever and the customer.

Benefits

• health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage)
• retirement savings benefits
• life insurance and disability benefits
• parental leave
• sick leave
• paid vacation and holidays
• access to numerous voluntary benefits

What This Job Offers

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