Category Insights Manager

Job Summary

Working with limited guidance, the Category Manager will guide the execution of sales and category management initiatives, making recommendations based upon a deep analysis and understanding of business results, competitive data, and consumer insights, relevant to regional/national branded accounts.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilizing multiple data resources, lead the development of new item presentations and/or category reviews, interpreting data to provide actionable insights to drive category growth
• Coordinate with sales leads on customer presentation development by identifying and prioritizing category and brand opportunities at the account, and presenting data-based insights both to clients and to our retail partner
• Align with industry peers on category review process to provide unbiased category recommendations to our retail partner
• Own post-promotional analytic process, identifying successes and opportunities
• Generate and analyze weekly, monthly and annual reporting to track brand and category performance
• Leverage data to provide event and quarterly forecasting and to monetize trade budget impacts
• Efficiently respond to internal and external ad hoc requests as received

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in related field required
• 3 years of experience in a customer-facing Category Management or Analyst role required
• Demonstrated skills in analyzing data from various sources to provide insights and recommendations
• IRI/Nielsen, 84.51° Stratum & Market 6 experience required
• Experience in creating and presenting PowerPoint presentations in front of an audience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; Access, Power BI a plus

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