What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field Category Manager, Kroger position at Ferrero?
Job Location: Cincinnati
Company Description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
About the Role:
Are you passionate about leveraging data to drive success and eager to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a globally renowned confectionery brand? Ferrero is seeking a dynamic and strategic Field Category Manager to join our team! This full-time, permanent remote position, based in the vibrant city of Cincinnati, Ohio offers a unique opportunity to influence and elevate our product strategies across all categories. Reporting to the Director of Grocery Field Category Management, you will be at the forefront of developing compelling, data-driven selling stories that boost sales and margin goals for all products within Ferrero. Step into a role where your insights and innovations will make a significant impact on our success and growth!
Main Responsibilities:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
#FNA
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
Ferrero U.S.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.
Company Description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
About the Role:
Are you passionate about leveraging data to drive success and eager to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a globally renowned confectionery brand? Ferrero is seeking a dynamic and strategic Field Category Manager to join our team! This full-time, permanent remote position, based in the vibrant city of Cincinnati, Ohio offers a unique opportunity to influence and elevate our product strategies across all categories. Reporting to the Director of Grocery Field Category Management, you will be at the forefront of developing compelling, data-driven selling stories that boost sales and margin goals for all products within Ferrero. Step into a role where your insights and innovations will make a significant impact on our success and growth!
Main Responsibilities:
- Partner with Kroger Sales Director and National Account Managers, broker and trade partners to develop data driven, objective category recommendations that meet or exceed Ferrero Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”)
- Provide strategic and tactical recommendations to customer and National Account Managers on distribution, shelving, merchandising, and pricing
- Actively participate in joint business planning development and line review sessions to enhance category growth stories within the Confections, Spreads and Cookie Categories
- Leverage all syndicated data resources, shopper insights platforms and research in support of the sales initiatives that ensure linkage with the Category Management and Retailer plans
- Monitor and analyze category, competition, and consumer market data to proactively identify business opportunities and develop actionable category insights
- Drive support for new product innovation launches through commercial planning process
- Build relationships within key customers to strengthen strategic and trusted partner status
- Bachelor's degree in Business/Marketing discipline required, MBA is a plus
- 5 years relevant experience required, CPG and/or Grocery Channel experience preferred
- Category management skill set required, Category Space Planning experience a plus
- Proactive mindset to develop category strategies and translate them into distribution, shelving, pricing and merchandising objectives
- Data analysis skills to monitor key account performance and develop strategies
- Interpersonal skills as to interface effectively with necessary internal and external stakeholders, ability to build solid relationships and achieve brand sales goals
- Strong collaborative capabilities, high integrity/ethics, and operate daily with the company's values in mind
- Global mindset: desire to build a successful career with a growing global company
- Excellent written, oral, time-management and presentation skills
- Exceptional knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Kroger 84.51 necessary; Power BI and data modeling a plus
- Position requires 25% travel
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
#FNA
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
Ferrero U.S.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.