Manager - Category Insights

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Category Insights Manager to drive insights-based strategies for retailer partners and internal teams. This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage your analytical skills and CPG expertise to uncover valuable insights that will shape the growth strategies of both the company and its partners. You will be at the forefront of data analysis, translating complex data into compelling narratives that influence decision-making. Join a dynamic team that values creativity and innovation, where your contributions will directly impact the company's success and growth trajectory.

Benefits

Career Growth Opportunities

Health Benefits

Flexible Medical Spending Account

RRSP Matching Program

Tuition Reimbursement

Discount Program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of CPG experience with a focus on sales analytics and category management.
• Expert in data tools like Nielsen and IRI to derive actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data to provide insights and recommendations for category development.
• Create ongoing reports to track performance and identify opportunities.

Skills

Sales Analytics

Category Management

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Presentation Skills

Problem Solving

Creativity

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Nielsen

Numerator

IRI

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description

Category Insights Manager

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SummaryThe 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 on-going reporting (weekly / monthly / quarterly) to track and interpret performance while drawing insights that lead to actionable category development recommendations.
• Works closely and builds trusted partnership with 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.
• Provide 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 (eg. 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.