Category Manager

The PUR Company; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in consumer products is seeking a Category Manager who will drive growth by optimizing sales strategies and providing consumer insights. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in category management, excellent analytical skills, and experience with key retail data systems. Join a dynamic and entrepreneurial team committed to delivering innovative solutions and making a positive impact in the market.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in CPG category management.
• Experience with Retailer POS and Nielsen databases.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Optimize category sales through assortment and pricing strategies.
• Analyze market data and provide actionable recommendations.
• Monitor execution of customer strategies.

Skills

Analysis

Communication

Presentation

Planning

Education

University degree in Business, Marketing, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Retailer POS systems

Nielsen syndicate databases

Job description

The PUR Company is a category disrupting brand with a market leading position. Our rapid growth has been driven by our differentiated products, better-for-you attributes and deeply loyal consumer base. We’re a team of entrepreneurial thinkers, with a relentless drive to get things done, passionate about what we do and accelerating growth through expanding points of distribution and launching new products. We do it all while having fun and acting with PURpose!

If this excites and invigorates you, we’d love to hear from you! The PUR Company is looking for a Category Manager to join our team.

What you will do :

The Category Manager will work closely with the leadership and sales teams, as well as customers, to identify growth opportunities and develop strategies to expand both the overall category and PUR Company’s volume. This role will be responsible for updating and delivering monthly market reviews, analyzing post-promotional performance with actionable recommendations, and providing key customer and market insights to support sales and marketing initiatives.

Responsibilities :

• Optimize our category sales by effectively influencing assortment, shelving (planogram / merchandising), distribution, pricing, promotion and feature activity plans
• Utilizes best practices in analytics to provide insights and recommendations from customer POS, shopper research, consumer research, syndicated data sources and synthesize into a clear concise persuasive call to action
• Monitor and report on the execution of customer and retailer strategies to ensure agreed objectives are met
• Provides in-depth customer and segment analysis and insights to support the development of fact-based customer account plans and delivery of annual business objectives
• Supports the business with the development of sales strategy and key action points based on data.
• Identifies opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency of PUR insights processes.
• Additional duties and responsibilities of this position may be modified or expanded as business needs require.

Qualifications :

• A university degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field is required.
• 5 years of successful experience in a CPG environment, with a focus on category management and / or a Category Advisor role with a proven track record of accomplishments and business transformation.
• Key Account or Sales Strategy experience within CPG would be very helpful but not mandatory
• Experience with Retailer POS and Nielsen syndicate databases.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and Office skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Proactive planning and organizational skills.

We thank all candidates who are interested in applying for the position, kindly note, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

PUR is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility to Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted, please advise should you require accommodation during the hiring process.