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Senior Category Manager
Location
Pennsylvania
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
$122K - $167.8K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Category Manager
Mondelēz International
• Category Strategy & Development: Identify headroom for growth, setting strategic targets on category share & channel distribution across the Hu & Enjoy Life portfolios. • Define category & competitive landscape informing brand x category. • roadmap for both annual planning and multi-year planning. • Assess consumption performance v. in-year & longer-term roadmaps. • Identify future fit categories in partnership with innovation team. • Support channel & customer development (CCD) team in delivering category toolkits & influencing MAPs strategy. • Category Insights & Research: Set category learning objectives & required budgets in concert with Category Insights Manager (CIM), Insights & Analytics partners (I&A), and Brand team. • Deliver regular category reporting to North America & North American Ventures businesses to illustrate brand priorities & latest learnings. • Utilize & prioritize suite of tools developed by CIM to identify gaps & opportunities for strengthening category x brand insights. • Category Team Leader: Ensure category team delivers on proper tracking to key metrics with robust reporting on category trends, competitive brand performance, consumer trends, customer performance. • Support CIM in refreshing & expanding master selling story in support of category reviews. • Unlock cross-team communication to ensure alignment of objectives, research, and budgets across broader sales x brand x I&A teams. • Oversee team priorities & goal setting, support day-to-day management of category team, foster growth & development within category team.
Job Requirements
- Dynamic, hands-on leader with demonstrated success as both a top-performing CPG salesperson and as a leader on winning teams.
- Deep understanding of Nielsen & Spins with the ability to develop a category story and key KPIs to outperform category growth.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing category insights and long-term strategy growth.
- Self-starter with the ability to take insights from data and put them to action in conjunction with RGM team.
- Extensive experience developing and executing highly impactful selling strategies.
- Adept at fostering strong partnerships with sales, marketing and RGM to develop a cohesive strategy that meets all company objectives.
- Fluent in Microsoft Office and excel.
Benefits
- health insurance
- wellness and family support programs
- life and disability insurance
- retirement savings plans
- paid leave programs
- education related programs
- paid holidays and vacation time
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