Manager - Category Insights

FGF Brands; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative company as a Category Insights Manager, where your analytical skills will drive insights and strategies for growth. In this role, you will leverage industry-leading tools to analyze data and present findings that will influence decision-making for both internal teams and external partners. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment, collaborating closely with sales and marketing teams to uncover insights that lead to actionable strategies. If you are passionate about data and storytelling, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing organization that values creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.

Benefits

Health Benefits

Flexible Medical Spending Account

RRSP Matching Program

Tuition Reimbursement

Discount Program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in CPG with strong sales analytics skills.
• Expert in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data to provide actionable insights for category development.
• Create reports to track performance and interpret market trends.

Skills

Sales Analytics

Category Management

Communication Skills

Data Interpretation

Presentation Skills

Analytical Thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Nielsen

IRI

Numerator

Job description

Job Description

Category Insights Manager

We’re a non-traditional company…

Summary The Category Insights Manager will be primarily responsible for analyzing data and developing critical insights and solutions for our retailer partners and internal sales & marketing teams.

This individual must be comfortable using CPG industry tools (Nielsen, Numerator, etc.) to uncover insights that will support the growth strategy for both our Retailer Partners and FGF Brands. You are very comfortable translating these insights into a concise internal or customer-facing presentation. You thrive on the story as much as the data!

Based out of our office in Toronto and reporting into the Director of Customer Category Development, this is a terrific opportunity for a technically gifted analytical leader with the intellectual horsepower to drive insights-based thinking and actions.

What FGF Offers:

• FGF believes in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training. Unleashing Your Potential
• Competitive Compensation, Health Benefits, & a generous flexible medical / Health spending account
• RRSP matching program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - Restaurants, gyms, shopping etc.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provides expert level category knowledge on performance, innovation, market insights, trends and shopper and consumer insights.
• Creates ongoing reporting (weekly / monthly / quarterly) to track and interpret performance while drawing insights that lead to actionable category development recommendations.
• Works closely and builds trusted partnerships with the sales team and other internal stakeholders to provide objective recommendations.
• Provides support to CPG accounts across both the Canadian and US markets.
• Identifies assortment opportunities, shelf allocations and adjacency recommendations of planograms.
• Provides postmortems and tracking of programs, including seasonal programs that lead to future recommendations.
• Analyzes promotional activity to evaluate success to provide recommendations for future features.
• Acts as an internal expert with CPG data tools including IRI, Nielsen, Numerator and other customer-specific tools.
• Respects the confidentiality of customer data (internally and externally).

Required Experience

• Demonstrated ability in sales analytics, category management to formulate recommendations.
• Minimum 5 years CPG experience.
• A high-level expert in all Microsoft Office Suite tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong proficiency to pull data with CPG tools (e.g., IRI, Nielsen, Numerator, LDIA, Dunnhumby etc.).
• Proven expertise in building user-friendly tools and reports that help bring data to life.
• Ability to distill vast amounts of data into critical business insights.
• Superb communication skills.
• Previous experience in presenting complex analytics to a senior-level audience.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Embrace our corporate values of speed, change, and uncertainty while driving profitable growth.
• Education – bachelor’s degree Required.

What is the recipe for a great career at FGF? Working at FGF Brands, there is never a dull moment! As a successful company that is continually growing, there is always challenging yet rewarding work to be a part of. We have an entrepreneurial spirit which encourages all our team members to use their own creativity and out-of-the-box thinking to come up with solutions and new ideas.

In compliance with Ontario’s Bill 190, we confirm that this posting represents a current, existing vacancy within our organization.

Disclaimer: The above describes the general responsibilities, required knowledge, and skills. Please keep in mind that other duties may be added or this description may be amended at any time.