Sr. Associate Manager – Category Management Drug & Natural Channel

Mondelēz International•New York, MA

8d•$97,300 - $133,815•Onsite

About The Position

You will support our growth and the delivery of excellent business results. You will be responsible for converting in-depth shopping and omni retail environment data into insights and category, retail and customer strategies and recommendations. Strive every day to be the indispensable partner with our Drug retailers CVS, Natural and Walgreens, encompassing both tactical and strategic guidance, leading to profitable category growth. The ideal candidate for this role must demonstrate learning agility, have a strong customer centricity, hungry for knowledge, possess a strong analytical skill set and have a passion for customer insights and telling compelling stories with data. We are a high-performing, collaborative team driven by a competitive spirit. We bring proactive solutions to our retailer partners that are based on deep category and shopper insights. We foster a supportive team atmosphere to amplify individual strengths and curiosity. We value a diversity of talent, experiences, and backgrounds to expand our team culture.

Requirements

Strong learning agility, intellectual curiosity and analytical horsepower
Ability to synthesize insights into collaborative storytelling that leads to quantifiable results, experience translating data into insights
Ability to apply insights to business questions to provide recommendations and influence strategy
Experience applying analytical skills and a problem-solving mindset to answer ambiguous business questions
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, comfortable with prioritizing multiple deliverables, and overlapping deadlines
Strong understanding of which data source to leverage to answer the question (POS, Syndicated, Panel, Industry Insights, etc)
Ability to combine data visualization with supporting shopper insights into a cohesive story
Knowledge of shelving strategy and best practices inclusive of planogram creation and modification (JDA/Apollo/SpaceMan)

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Analytics, or related field
3-5 years of experience in category management, insights, marketing strategy, or analytics (CPG/FMCG, Amazon or Away from Home preferred)
Experience with data sources (e.g. Nielsen, Circana, 1010)
Experience in using retailer/customer data, shopper insights, and analytics to develop compelling retail customer plans
Strong analytical and storytelling skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
High proficiency in base business tools (Excel/PowerPoint)
In-depth knowledge in analyzing and creating visualizations of large amounts of data
Experience developing customer-facing presentations; direct customer-facing experience is a plus
JDA/POG building experience is a plus
Strategic thinking and business acumen
Data-driven decision-making
Strong communication and presentation skills
Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
Proven track record in persuasively influencing and aligning key customers and business stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization
Project management and organizational skills; management of multiple projects at once
Ability to work independently and in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

Build lasting business relationships based on trust and confidence
Create recurring business reviews providing deep, action-oriented analysis on drivers
Create compelling, insights-led category reviews, new item analyses, and seasonal reviews
Provide proactive insight into the impact of category drivers and promotional strategies to the customer and sales teams
Support ad hoc analytics and reporting requests from Customer Partner cross-functionally to provide share forecast for key accounts
Learn and drive digital commerce analysis and recommendations with our retailer partners