Category Insights Leader: Growth & Data Strategy

Ultipro; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream is expanding its data and insights capabilities to drive category leadership and growth across key DGIC accounts. The role champions insight-based analytics, builds category strategies, and enables data-driven decision making for annual planning and partner collaboration.

You will work across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain to translate data into actionable strategies that support the company’s competitive position in the ice cream category.

Qualifications

• Experience in a sales planning, sales operations or sales reporting role, and/or category management sales roles in CPG industry.
• History in data management (IRI, Nielsen, ThoughtSpot, PowerBI, and other data sources) and insight building.
• Commercial experience, high developed collaboration and influencing skills, self-starter, results driven, entrepreneurial.
• Knowledge of customer best practices, market intelligence, category/channel/ shopper trends and shopper Insight into actionable ideas.

Responsibilities

• Develop Valued Capabilities: improve selling analytics and insights across the DGIC portfolio.
• Category and DGIC Performance: enable category strategies and insights for key accounts.
• Integrated Approach: act as data/insights resource for cross-functional teams in planning and operations.
• Drive Quality: provide feedback on retail experiences and ensure data-driven improvements.
• Lead integration of advanced data apps into DGIC’s annual plan and performance tracking.

Skills

Sales planning

Sales operations

Sales reporting

Category management

Data analysis

Collaboration

Influencing skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Customer insights

Education

BS/BA Preferred

Tools

Circana (IRI)

ThoughtSpot

PowerBI

JD Edwards ERP

Job description

Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream is expanding its data and insights capabilities to drive category leadership and growth across key DGIC accounts. The role champions insight-based analytics, builds category strategies, and enables data-driven decision making for annual planning and partner collaboration.

You will work across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain to translate data into actionable strategies that support the company’s competitive position in the ice cream category.