[Remote] Associate Manager, Category Leadership, Meijer & Wakefern
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Campbell's Company is a historic brand that has been connecting people through food since 1869. The Associate Manager, Category Leadership will support key accounts Meijer and Wakefern by leveraging data to drive growth and efficiency in the Meals and Beverage portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Analyze & interpret sales and consumer data to identify trends impacting our categories, brands, and items, and build stories to convey findings and solutions to our customers
- Develop shelving and distribution strategies to meet consumer needs & behaviors
- Develop close, trust and acumen-based relationships with internal cross functional partners that support business objectives and enhance executional excellence
- Enhance Category Leadership Team skills elevation goals by sharing best practices and skills with peers and elevating your own skills through similar exchanges
- Become the trusted partner for Meijer & Wakefern by understanding their strategies, ways of operating, and expectations to deliver category insights and shelving/distribution recommendations
- Responsible for developing customer specific presentations of relevant consumer insights, competitive responses, and new item/category selling strategies
- Manages Category specific customer calls - e.g. category reviews, business updates, new item presentations, and plan-o-gram work
- Works closely with Campbell’s sales teams to provide analytical support for key strategy changes (i.e. Annual Planning)
- Responsible for influencing & executing multiple POG versions across both customers to support category advisership status
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 4+ years CPG/analytical experience
- Data & Information systems proficiency (including Circana & dunnhumby)
- Experience building Plan-O-Grams in JDA/Blue Yonder
- Experience working for and/or calling on Meijer and/or Wakefern and with a CPG manufacturer
- Prior Category Leadership / Category Management / Analytics experience
- Experience analyzing category and consumer trends
- PowerPoint & Excel
- Strategic Insights (Kantar, Mintel)
- Software/Technical Skills: Circana IRI, Circana Panel Data, JDA/Blue Yonder Space Planning, Gateway, Power BI
- Category, Loyalty, & Shopper Knowledge
- Strong Communication Skills (Listening & Expressing)
- Problem Solving & Strong Analytical Ability with Excellent Attention to Detail
Benefits
- Benefits begin on day one and include medical, dental, short and long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners).
- Employees are eligible for our matching 401(k) plan and can enroll on the first day of employment with immediate vesting.
- Campbell’s offers unlimited sick time along with paid time off and holiday pay.
- If in WHQ – free access to the fitness center.
- Access to on-site day care (operated by Bright Horizons) and company store.
- Giving back to the communities where our employees work and live is very important to Campbell’s.
- Our 'Campbell’s Cares' program matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually.
- Campbell’s has a variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support employees.
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