Category Planning Manager - Condiments Growth & Insights

Greentone; Hoboken (NJ); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Life insurance and disability benefits

Parental leave

Sick leave

Paid vacation and holidays

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Unilever is seeking a Category Planning Manager for US Condiments in Hoboken, NJ (Hybrid). This role leads data-driven category strategies, shopper insights, and commercial planning with cross-functional teams across sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain.

You will develop customer-focused category plans, manage forecasts, and collaborate with major retailers to drive profitable growth while delivering on the US Condiments strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.
• 5+ years (7+ preferred) of experience in Customer Development, Account Management, Trade Marketing, Category Strategy, and/or Brand Marketing Operations.
• Results-driven with ownership mindset to achieve goals and KPIs.
• Proven analytical thinking and data-driven decision-making using data and insights.
• Retail, eCommerce, and omnichannel experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Strong background in data and analytics and enjoys diving deep into large data sets.
• Translating data into insights and insights into action by crafting commercial plans.
• Partnering in S&OP to gather key demand-driving inputs from customer and brand teams.
• Crafting channel and customer trade budgets and annual growth targets.
• Diving deep into channel pricing, distribution gaps, competitive analysis, trade optimization, and shopper insights.
• Building key Category and Brand Commercial planning inputs across multiple channels and customers.
• Developing customer-facing category strategy with key business partners to translate strategy into marketing plans.
• Setting and deploying channel strategy for the category and holistic customer investment.

Skills

Data analytics

Category strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Forecasting

Omnichannel

Presentation skills

Influencing

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

IRI/Nielsen POS data

Numerator

Job description

Unilever is seeking a Category Planning Manager for US Condiments in Hoboken, NJ (Hybrid). This role leads data-driven category strategies, shopper insights, and commercial planning with cross-functional teams across sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain.

You will develop customer-focused category plans, manage forecasts, and collaborate with major retailers to drive profitable growth while delivering on the US Condiments strategy.