Director, Category Management Walmart
About The Position
Since 1869, Campbell's has connected people through food they love, stewarding iconic brands. This role offers the opportunity to make a difference every day, build a rewarding career with opportunities to grow, innovate, and inspire. The primary responsibility of this position is to lead and advance the Category Leadership function to drive growth and improve performance for Campbell Snacks within Walmart and Sam's Club. This role supports annual sales planning while acting as a strategic liaison to the HQ Category Leadership team. It owns Walmart and Sam's Club Category Management and Category Advisor responsibilities and drives team performance through clear goal setting and ongoing development of direct reports.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required, master's degree preferred
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in CPG industry (Walmart and Sam's experience preferred)
- Minimum 5 years of Shopper Insights or Category Management experience
- 10+ years Circana or Nielson syndicated data experience (Scintilla experience preferred)
- Prior experience managing teams with a proven track record of inspiring a team to execute plans is required
- Strong leadership and influencing skills, professionalism, executive presence and prioritization skills
Nice To Haves
- Strategic Thinker – ability to envision the team/processes/relationships of the future
- Leadership/Executive presence – leads through resonant engagement demonstrating mindfulness, hope and compassion to build an inclusive environment
- Ability to lead, communicate, present and influence all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level
- Self-motivated with ability to embrace change and deliver results managing multiple/diverse priorities
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
- Strong analytical and technical skills; Ability to leverage / navigate POS (Circana/Nielsen/Spins); Syndicated Panel (Circana/Numerator/etc.); use/application of retailer data (Scintilla)
Responsibilities
- Translate Category Strategy into custom Walmart/Sam's category stories and growth initiatives
- Develop strong working relationships with Walmart and Sam's Buyers
- Manage a team of Advisors responsible for providing strategic and tactical recommendations to Walmart buyers on Distribution, Shelving, Merchandising, and Pricing to improve category performance
- Manage a team of Category Managers aimed at influencing Walmart/Sam's activations through account specific Insights
- Translate and synthesize consumer and shopper insights at the customer level
- Identify and activate against key Walmart/Sam's opportunities
- Identify growth opportunities for direct reports and team members
- Develop and deploy Category Leadership best practices
- Keep an eye towards future of Category trends, systems and best practices
- Build and execute custom category and shopper strategies that will drive growth for both Campbell's and Walmart/Sam's
- Works closely with cross-functional groups including Buyers, Replenishment, Modular Planning, Space Planning, customer teams, and HQ category management
- Serve as a trusted advisor to customer
- Works cross-functionally with our HQ Internal sales, strategy, and marketing function
- Ensure close connection with field sales and Strategy teams and priorities
- Ensure close connection with Insights team and influence priorities and budgets
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- short and long-term disability
- AD&D
- life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners)
- matching 401(k) plan
- unlimited sick time
- paid time off
- holiday pay
- free access to the fitness center (if in WHQ)
- on-site day care (operated by Bright Horizons)
- company store
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- competitive health, dental, 401k and wellness benefits beginning on the first day of employment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
