What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Category Manager position at The J.M. Smucker Co.?
Your Opportunity as the Associate Category Manager
Play a critical role on the Walmart Coffee Category Advisory Team by delivering category insights and helping execute merchandising strategy. Leverage data analysis, visualization, and retail strategy expertise to drive category performance. Guide decision‑making through compelling data stories, reporting, and visualizations, and build trusted relationships with Walmart partners to activate key elements of category strategy.
Location: Bentonville, AR (JMS Regional Walmart Office)
Work Arrangements: Hybrid - onsite a minimum of 2 days per week
In This Role You Will
What we are looking for:
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
Play a critical role on the Walmart Coffee Category Advisory Team by delivering category insights and helping execute merchandising strategy. Leverage data analysis, visualization, and retail strategy expertise to drive category performance. Guide decision‑making through compelling data stories, reporting, and visualizations, and build trusted relationships with Walmart partners to activate key elements of category strategy.
Location: Bentonville, AR (JMS Regional Walmart Office)
Work Arrangements: Hybrid - onsite a minimum of 2 days per week
In This Role You Will
- Deliver strategic, actionable insights from business trends and shopper behavior using Scintilla and syndicated data
- Support Category Advisory initiatives at retail by translating insights into weekly reporting, dashboards, and modular/planogram recommendations.
- Apply a broad understanding of the competitive landscape to inform customer and category initiatives
- Partner closely with retailer, actively participating in customer calls to align on insights and execution
- Assist in the development and implementation of Customer specific Category Leadership Plans (CLP) and 4P tactical solutions
- Collaborate and influence across the various Strategic Business Areas (SBAs)
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 2 years of relevant Consumer Packaged Goods experience
- 2 years of Category Management experience
- Experience leveraging Circana or other syndicated data sources
- Working knowledge of Modular Planning / Planogram software (JDA/Blue Yonder)
- Experience building relationships with customers / retailers
- Strong analytical skills, problem solving and storytelling experience
- Ability to travel up to 10%
- Experience leveraging Scintilla
- Shelf IQ experience
- Experience with Tableau and/or other data visualization tools from a reporting perspective
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
Stay connected with us on LinkedIn®
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.