Senior Manager, Category & Insights Strategy - CPG

Wolf Search Solutions; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Search is seeking a Senior Manager, Category & Insights Strategy to Modernize, Elevate, and Dominate the Category for a billion-dollar beverage platform. You will design the category insights engine, connect retailer data, and craft selling stories that win the shelf and influence leadership conversations.

You bring 5+ years in Category Management or Commercial Insights, and a proven ability to turn complex data into decisions.

Qualifications

• CPG experience required.
• 5+ years in Category Management, Customer Development, or Commercial Insights.
• Ability to turn complex data into decisions, not just decks.
• Experience building or elevating a category or BI capability.
• Strong cross-functional fluency across Sales, Marketing, Trade, and Finance.
• Credible presence with senior stakeholders and customers alike.

Skills

CPG experience

Category Management

Customer Development

Commercial Insights

Data storytelling

Cross-functional

Stakeholder management

Job description

Senior Manager, Category & Insights Strategy — Modernize, Elevate, Dominate the Category

Confidential Search

Owned by a multi-billion dollar, privately held global diversified enterprise, this $1B+ beverage platform is home to a portfolio of iconic brands entering a new era under new ownership. Aggressive M&A to acquire complementary brands is only part of the strategy, paired with serious investment in innovation, systems, and talent, all in pursuit of one goal: dominate the category.

Modernize, elevate, and help build a world-class category insights and business intelligence engine. Connect the retailer data. Craft the selling stories and category reviews that change the conversation and win the shelf. Be the foundation behind sales leadership showing up as indispensable to customers, consequential in every buyer meeting. Play an integral role in identifying and assessing the next brand that could reshape the portfolio.

What you bring:

• CPG experience required
• 5+ years in Category Management, Customer Development, or Commercial Insights
• A storyteller who turns complex data into decisions, not just decks
• Critical experience building, creating, and elevating a category or BI capability
• Deep cross-functional fluency across Sales, Marketing, Trade, and Finance
• A credible presence with senior stakeholders and customers alike