Category Development Manager

that matter most for this role:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Management, Accounting, Data Analytics, or related field preferred.
• 3-5+ years of experience in consumer goods, retail, or syndicated data with a focus on category management, sales, business analytics and/or shopper insights.
• Experience understanding, utilizing, and employing syndicated data, customer card/POS data, and panel data to drive internal and external wins through sales and share growth (experience with data sources such as Nielsen, Circana, NPD, Numerator, 84.51, dunnhumby, SPINS, Stratum, Spectra/demographics, SPSOneScreen, Symphony Retail AI/EYC).
• Ability to distill complex data into simple stories.
• Demonstrated ability to build indispensable, collaborative partnerships with retail customers and internal business partners, across functional teams.
• Highly skilled in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
• Exceptional communication skills - verbal, written & presentation.
• Strong planning/organizing skills; the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Working knowledge of retail merchandising and in store execution tactics.
• CPCM (Certified Professional Category Manager) and/or Master's degree preferred.
• Experience in Sales and/or analytical sales support and driving face to face dialogue and initiatives preferred.
• Additional experience managing relationships with third party agencies including brokers and data and insight providers preferred.
• Experience in beverages DSD is strongly preferred.
• Additional analytical experience and competencies (i.e. Tableau, Microsoft Access, PowerBI, ProSpace, SQL, VBA, Alteryx) preferred.

• Travel 40-50%
• Permanent
• Benefits eligible