Sr. SRM Category Manager, Wet Dog

Mars•Franklin, TN

8d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for managing the Wet Dog category pricing, leading the development of shelf back pricing architecture and strategy, and developing a long-term vision for omni channel trade, pricing, and promotional architecture. The position involves managing key stakeholder groups to align with the SRM agenda, co-piloting the development of customer mix strategy with sales leadership, and creating/managing the US pet nutrition SKU assortment architecture. Additionally, the role leads annual SRM category reviews to identify enterprise-wide opportunities across price, products, and mix, and develops annual price and investment strategies to maximize enterprise profitability. The Sr. SRM Category Manager will also serve as the product owner for the digital SRM toolkit, responsible for its maintenance and enhancement, and leverage advanced analytics to drive innovation in the US pet nutrition portfolio and advance the SRM digital toolkit.

Requirements

5-10 years of working experience and/or internship experience in a related field
Four-year college degree
Experience demonstrating advanced problem-solving and analytical capabilities in a cross-functional team environment
Strong technical and analytical skills
Customer Focus: Understand customer needs and align margin strategies
Leveraging Insights to Action: Translate pricing insights into actionable recommendations for the marketing teams and the enterprise
Drive for Results: Demonstrate a strong commitment to achieving goals and objectives
Analytical Acumen: Ability to analyze pricing data from various sources, manipulate information, and make appropriate recommendations
Problem Solving: Effectively identify and address pricing-related opportunities
Peer Relationships: Collaborate and foster positive relationships with cross-functional teams involved in pricing-related activities
Demonstrated ability to manipulate information from various sources, analyze data, and make appropriate recommendations.
Strong Excel skillset for data manipulation and analysis.
Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with internal and external teams
Proactive and service-oriented mindset to drive continuous improvement in trade processes.
Integrated marketing or sales functional experience
Learning Agility: Ability to adapt quickly and apply new learnings quickly

Nice To Haves

CPG experience

Responsibilities

Manage Wet Dog category pricing
Lead development of shelf back pricing architecture and strategy
Develop long term vision for omni channel trade, pricing, and promotional architecture
Manage key stakeholder groups throughout the organization to align with SRM agenda
Co-pilot development of customer mix strategy with sales leadership
Create and manage the US pet nutrition SKU assortment architecture
Lead annual SRM category reviews with business management teams to surface opportunities across price, products and mix for the enterprise
Develop annual price and investment strategy to maximize enterprise profitability
Product owner for digital SRM toolkit responsible for maintenance and enhancement of tools leveraged across broader SRM team
Leverage advanced analytics to drive step change in US pet nutrition portfolio innovation and advance the SRM digital toolkit