What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Category Insights Manager position at Empire Marketing Str.?
Job description
Empire Marketing Strategies is the leading expert in the food brokerage industry and supports the Grocery, Meat/Seafood, Deli/Bakery and Produce suppliers for Kroger and the Kroger family of companies.
Senior Category Development Manager Job Summary
Working with limited guidance, the Senior Category Development Manager will guide the execution of sales and category management initiatives, making recommendations based upon a deep analysis and understanding of business results, competitive data, and consumer insights, relevant to regional/national branded accounts.
This position is a hybrid role and will require working in Empire's Newport, KY office 2 - 3 days per week.
Senior Category Development Manager Key Responsibilities
- Utilizing multiple data resources, lead the development of new item presentations and/or category reviews, interpreting data to provide actionable insights to drive category growth
- Coordinate with sales leads on customer presentation development by identifying and prioritizing category and brand opportunities at the account, and presenting data-based insights both to clients and to our retail partner
- Align with industry peers on category review process to provide unbiased category recommendations to our retail partner
- Own post-promotional analytic process, identifying successes and opportunities
- Generate and analyze weekly, monthly and annual reporting to track brand and category performance
- Leverage data to provide event and quarterly forecasting and to monetize trade budget impacts
- Efficiently respond to internal and external ad hoc requests as received
Senior Category Development Manager Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in related field required
- 3 years of experience in a customer-facing Category Management or Analyst role required
- Previous management experience preferred
- Demonstrated skills in analyzing data from various sources to provide insights and recommendations
- IRI/Nielsen, 84.51° Stratum & Market 6 experience required
- Experience in creating and presenting PowerPoint presentations in front of an audience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; Access, Power BI a plus
This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.