Category Growth Manager: Insights & Retail Partnerships

Chobani; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Chobani is seeking a Category Development Manager to join the Grocery Team in the East Division. You will work with category, consumer and shopper insights data to create clear direction for the category and align with Chobani strategies.

You’ll develop retailer partnerships, provide category reporting and insights, and deliver data-driven recommendations to grow sales at key accounts. Required are a bachelor's degree and 3–5 years of CPG category management, with strong analytics, presentation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3–5 years consumer packaged goods category management experience.
• Highly skilled in data analytics & presentation building.
• Strength in leveraging facts & insights to build compelling stories with actionable recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence & build/maintain strong collaborative partnerships with headquarter level customers as well as internal business partners.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Develop & cultivate strong relationships with key retailer customers, becoming an indispensable partner for all category management needs
• Provide category reporting, trend analysis, customized reports & ad hoc projects to both internal & external partners
• Utilize critical thinking & problem-solving skills to anticipate/identify opportunities or challenges & turn insights into elevated actionable recommendations
• Leverage consumer, shopper, category & marketplace trends & insights to provide ongoing strategic and tactical recommendations to drive overall category growth
• Develop data-based materials for customer specific presentations, providing strong data visualization to communicate business opportunities or challenges for new item selling meetings and/or category reviews
• Utilize internal flow recommendation, space to sales analysis & consumer decision tree research to provide optimized retailer specific planogram recommendations
• Identify opportunities & help to implement improvement of tools, templates, and processes to maximize efficiency in performing job requirements
• Serve as the category expert within business unit, collaborating across internal cross-functional teams, providing input during planning cycles & helping to connect business opportunities with tactical & strategic solutions
• Provide post promotional analysis to review and improve the ROI and effectiveness of trade promotions
• Perform other duties as necessary

Skills

Data analytics

Presentation skills

Influence & partnerships

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Nielsen

Circana

Retailer shopper card systems

Planogram software

Job description

Chobani is seeking a Category Development Manager to join the Grocery Team in the East Division. You will work with category, consumer and shopper insights data to create clear direction for the category and align with Chobani strategies.

You’ll develop retailer partnerships, provide category reporting and insights, and deliver data-driven recommendations to grow sales at key accounts. Required are a bachelor's degree and 3–5 years of CPG category management, with strong analytics, presentation