Category Development Manager
About The Position
Chobani’s Category Development Managers work with category, consumer and shopper insights data to create a clear direction for the category that aligns customer and Chobani strategies. As a key member of the sales team, this role contributes to driving company sales and profits and to gaining advantage over competitors by driving strategic insights and value-added tools/programs to drive increased performance for designated brands at retail. As part of the Grocery Team, the Category Manger plays a valuable role providing analytical support for customers within the East Division such as ShopRite, Price Chopper, Big Y, and Market Basket (coverage list subject to change).
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- 3-5 years consumer packaged goods category management experience
- Highly skilled in data analytics & presentation building
- Strength in leveraging facts & insights to build compelling stories with actionable recommendations
- Demonstrated ability to influence & build/maintain strong collaborative partnerships with headquarter level customers as well as internal business partners
- Motivated & results driven with strong leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills: verbal, written, presentation & follow-through
- Ability to work in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced & dynamic environment
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects against deadlines
- Proficient with reporting systems: Nielsen, Circana, retailer shopper card systems, also planogram software
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Willingness to travel
Responsibilities
- Develop & cultivate strong relationships with key retailer customers, becoming an indispensable partner for all category management needs
- Provide category reporting, trend analysis, customized reports & ad hoc projects to both internal & external partners
- Utilize critical thinking & problem-solving skills to anticipate/identify opportunities or challenges & turn insights into elevated actionable recommendations
- Leverage consumer, shopper, category & marketplace trends & insights to provide ongoing strategic and tactical recommendations to drive overall category growth
- Develop data-based materials for customer specific presentations, providing strong data visualization to communicate business opportunities or challenges for new item selling meetings and/or category reviews
- Utilize internal flow recommendation, space to sales analysis & consumer decision tree research to provide optimized retailer specific planogram recommendations
- Identify opportunities & help to implement improvement of tools, templates, and processes to maximize efficiency in performing job requirements
- Serve as the category expert within business unit, collaborating across internal cross-functional teams, providing input during planning cycles & helping to connect business opportunities with tactical & strategic solutions
- Provide post promotional analysis to review and improve the ROI and effectiveness of trade promotions
- Perform other duties as necessary
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision coverage
- disability insurance
- health savings account
- flexible spending accounts
- tuition reimbursement
- 401k match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay
- fertility and childcare assistance
- 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after six months of continuous employment
- employee assistance program
- fitness discounts
- a wellness reimbursement
- on-site gym access (certain locations)
- 120 hours of paid time off
- 11 holidays
- paid volunteer time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
