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Category Manager, The Giant Company & Giant Food
Must live within 3 hours of Carlisle, PA or Landover, MD
As a strategic partner to top customers, the Category Manager is responsible for providing fact-based, insight-led, and actionable category solutions to drive growth for the category, customer, and company. This category thought-leader will translate consumer and data trends into value-creating business solutions regarding category assortment, merchandising, shelving, pricing, and promotion for Everyday candy as well as seasonal. Close collaboration with both internal & external partners will be critical to success within this role.
What are we looking for?
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree
5 years of CPG Account and/or Category Management
2 years of business analytics leveraging variety of data resources (i.e. IRI, Nielsen, Stratum, Spectra, etc.)
Highly proficient in MS Office applications (i.e. Excel & PowerPoint)
Willingness to travel (up to 10% of time)
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience managing and visualizing data using cutting edge tools (i.e., MS Power BI, Tableau)
Ahold experience
Strong analytical experience from situation assessment through solution with tangible results
Advanced Microsoft Office skills and experience, including “Storytelling” capability within PowerPoint which has compelled customer decision making and action
Space management tool experience (i.e. JDA)
Forward-looking, creative and strategic thinking ability
Knowledge of emerging retail strategy and technology (Omni-channel)
What would be your key responsibilities?
As the Lead Mars Wrigley Confectionary contact for The Giant Company and Giant Food, this associate will:
Create, plan, and execute category leadership solutions for the Everyday Confectionery Category which will deliver profitable sales growth.
Develop the knowledge and skills to consistently provide quality category support including:
Category assortment, merchandising, shelving, pricing, and promotional performance & recommendations
Planogram analysis and development
Competitive market analysis
Ad hoc and ongoing data management, reporting, and the creation of analytical tools
Lead the development of actionable category presentations utilizing storytelling
Project leadership & support, potentially including test & learn analytics
Leverage insights and resources through the utilization of a broad range of data sources, market research findings, tools, analyses, and technology; clearly articulating growth strategies and providing guidance to your customers toward quality category decisions.
Collaborate closely with Mars Wrigley sales and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on category and customer plans.
Build credibility and develop positive, cross-functional relationships with key customer stakeholders to maintain a high level of partnership with customers on Confectionery strategies.
Partner closely with the Mars Wrigley Category Strategy team to leverage and activate agreed upon internal category initiatives, including "Perfect Store" execution and other success measures, with detailed follow-through.
What can you expect from Mars?
Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we are striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
This role includes a company vehicle.
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Full Time
$69k-88k (estimate)
03/18/2023
01/08/2024
mars.com
TALLAHASSEE, FL
>50,000
1952
$10B - $50B
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, ...we produce some of the worlds best-loved brands including DOVE, EXTRA, M&Ms, MILKY WAY, SNICKERS, TWIX, ORBIT, PEDIGREE, ROYAL CANIN, SKITTLES, WHISKAS, COCOAVIA, and 5; and take care of half of the worlds pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals, BluePearl, Linnaeus, Pet Partners, and VCA. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive. For more information, please visit www.mars.com. Follow us: facebook.com/mars, twitter.com/marsglobal, https://www.instagram.com/marsglobal/, youtube.com/mars, Mars, Incorporated is not responsible for any content or activity made available via third party sites or services. Page subject to: mars.com/legal mars.com/privacy
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