Senior Category Development Manager (Wholesale)

Chobani • Plano, TX

43d • $119,000 - $179,000

About The Position

Our Sales Force is the face of Chobani. We make sure every cup we sell meets a happy customer. We’re a dedicated team. And it’s easy to be dedicated when you’re a part of something much bigger than yourself. We’ve got an unbridled appetite for making a difference.   Chobani’s Sr 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 helps drive company sales and profits and to gaining advantage over competitors by driving strategic insights and valuable tools/programs to drive increased performance for designated brands at retail.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 5+ years consumer packaged goods category management experience
• Strong and proven team leadership skills
• Strong cross-functional exposure / experience
• Highly customer focused with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and dynamic environment
• Highly organized with the ability to balance multiple projects at once
• Proficient with reporting systems: Shopper Card data systems, IRI, Nielsen
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Knowledgeable of market and industry trends, competitors, and leading customer strategies
• Willingness to travel

Responsibilities

• With the Chobani Emerging & Wholesale team, play a key role in focusing on Grocery Wholesale customers
• Develops long-term strategies at the Department level alongside Emerging Category Managers
• Leading, coaching, and developing a team to achieve performance and business objectives
• Shares ongoing, category-wide performance with internal and external partners to deliver action-based takeaways
• Works with cross-functional partners to develop strong sales and marketing plans and understand impact and performance of each
• Support to post promotional analysis to improve and brainstorm future activations
• Create insights-based support stories to aid Sales team counterparts in the sell-in process
• Improve efficiency and usability of existing tools to aid in the speed to insight for key collaborators
• Analyze ongoing trends in the Wholesale Grocery business to find opportunities as well as take corrective action where needed
• Provide necessary summaries and important trend updates to key internal partners
• Complete other tasks as necessary

Benefits

• Chobani provides a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision coverage, disability insurance, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, and tuition reimbursement.
• To help save for the future, all employees are eligible for a 401k match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay.
• To support growing families, we provide fertility and childcare assistance, and 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after six months of continuous employment.
• In addition, we provide wellness resources which include an employee assistance program, fitness discounts, a wellness reimbursement, on-site gym access (certain locations) and a monthly wellness newsletter to connect you with resources and timely information.
• We offer various types of paid time of including: 120 hours of paid time off, 11 holidays, paid volunteer time off and military service leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees