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Position Overview

The Manager Category Development - Target is a customer facing role responsible for driving thought leadership with actionable and compelling shopper and category insights.

• Customer-Facing Category Management and Strategy - bring the Target buyer category analytics and insights to identify category growth opportunities for the retailer.
• Sales Team collaboration - partner with the Sanofi Target Sales team to provide category insight, identify growth opportunities and/or competitive threats, understand share shifts and shopper trends.

This role reports into the Director of Category Management – Mass Channel and will additionally have responsibility for working cross functionally with key stakeholders. This individual will champion a culture of teamwork across the broader Sales, Sales Strategy, Category Management, Shopper Marketing, and Insights teams, helping accelerate the development of a high performing team.

The position can be located remotely, with travel up to 20% of the time.  

Responsibilities:

• Ability to define and present actionable omni strategies that deliver category sales and share growth at Target.
• Delivering best in class insights that unlock customer opportunities through compelling story telling by leveraging a broad range of data sources such as Numerator and Circana
• Identify opportunities to engage in custom shopper research to help understand in-market performance drivers, shopper decision making and the development of aisle and category solutions.
• Translate category growth strategies into tactical recommendations through AMPS that influence the retailer to take action.
• Develop strong working relationships with retail buyers independently of, and in partnership with NAMs in support of key customer initiatives.

• Perform competitive assessments and analysis for categories - share shifts, what’s working/not working across competitive retailers.
• Anticipate and respond to customer and sales team needs initiating appropriate selling enhancement and/or defense plans to capitalize on market opportunities.
• Leverage existing category management inventories, identify insight and data gaps, and help develop the next evolutions of category leadership opportunities.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, market research, or a related field.

Requirements: 

• 5 years of proven delivery in CPG with top and bottom-line results required. Excellent business acumen; proficient category and segment knowledge
• Proven success in driving insights partnership with customers
• Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking; ability to link strategies, objectives to develop compelling stories with actionable outcomes.
• Strong thought leadership, oral and written communication with the ability to influence both internal teams and the customer.
• Expertise with syndicated and retailer/loyalty data sources required. Experience with Circana and Numerator strongly preferred.
• Experience in working on multi-disciplinary teams and/or a matrixed environment while managing large volume of projects.
• Self-motivated and inspire others when facing highly ambiguous, complex situations.

What's In It For You

• Competitive Pay
• Three (3) Weeks Paid Vacation
• Robust 401(k) Employer Match
• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Parental Leave
• Learning and Developmental Opportunities
• Employee Resource Groups

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Location(s): Minneapolis, MN, Bridgewater, NJ, or remote (with travel, 20%)

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