CATEGORY MANAGER
Cincinnati, OH (on site)
OVERVIEW:
The Category Manager will be responsible for creating and managing customer-specific category management deliverables for both the Sales Team and directly to Customers There is specific emphasis on actionable category and shopper insights that drive the business customers. The position is expected to be the go-to category management expert, to include in-depth category, consumer, and shopper expertise.
Key responsibilities include category development, customer development, retail execution, insight activation and cross-functional collaboration. Importantly, this position requires both data and business savvy, as well as effective communication and problem-solving skills to provide consultative category management to both internal and external customers alike. This role is expected to present to and influence the customer when appropriate.
This is a full-time, exempt position.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Represent the Company portfolio (Fresh and Refrigerated products)
- Translate category and shopper insights into customer implications and opportunities
- Act as category advisor identifying ideas for total category growth
- Gather and share competitive intelligence information and implications
- Provide Merchandising, Assortment, Pricing and Shelving insights and recommendations
- Ensure recommendations adhere to shelving and assortment principles
- Support delivery of formal category reviews to the customer working in conjunction with Sales, identifying current state, business drivers and opportunities for growth
- Lead in the assessment of shelf layout and productivity, develop shelving recommendations to optimize category performance, manage schematic development and distribution
- Create and deliver fact-based presentations that compel customer(s) to take action against opportunities to improve their category and LVF’s branded performance
- Actively participate in the improvement of retail MAPS (Merchandising, Assortment, Pricing and Shelving) execution
- Share best practices and successful retail execution examples such that others can adopt and replicate with their customers
- Develop and deploy standardized monthly reports to cross functional teams.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Love this business and helping retailers grow their categories as much as we do at LVF. Problem solving is a fun team activity.
- Must command strong communication skills, collaboration, attention to detail, initiative and a results oriented, go get it attitude
- 2-3 years of related consumer packaged goods work experience required preferred both inside business unit and, on a customer-based selling team
- AC Nielsen/IRI expertise
- Highly proficient in Excel, Word and Power Point
- Well organized and able to handle multiple projects
- Presentation building skills a must – building and delivering
- Travel 20% of time when needed
- BA/BS required
$100-110k + 10% Bonus (Depending on experience)
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