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in Pleasanton, CA
Category Manager - Full-time / Part-time
Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
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Location | Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, California |
About this job
At Schwan's Company, we are driven to bring our customers delicious foods and reliable services. That's how we grew from a "one-man-and-a-truck" delivery business in rural Minnesota to a multibillion-dollar private company with thousands of team members nationwide. Our commitment to delicious foods shows in all we do, from careful ingredient selection and quality food making to delivering a great experience wherever you shop and eat.
The foods we make reach customers in many ways. We deliver directly to our customer's homes through our popular food-delivery business, offer well-known retail brands such as Red Baron®, Freschetta®, and Tony's® pizzas, Pagoda®snacks and appetizers, and Mrs. Smith's® and Edwards® desserts, and bring innovative food solutions to our customers in the food-service industry. To learn more, visit us at .
- Achieve “Trusted Advisor” status at a key customer, Albertsons / Safeway, through measurable category improvement
- Expand Schwan’s core brands across geographies and channels
Schwan's is hiring a Category Manager, to be based in Northern California. This person will have the option to work out of a home office, or in the office in Pleasanton, CA. In this customer-facing role, you will function as an expert in the frozen pizza, frozen desserts, and/or frozen snacks category. As part of the home office insights center of excellence, every day will bring a variety of opportunities for your thought leadership. Your critical thinking skills will grow as you build strategic rationales using your objective Consumer - and Shopper-centric analytics. Your influence will be based on factual insights which will help drive profitable growth for retailers and for Schwan’s.
Responsibilities
Develop customer-facing category presentations complete with actionable recommendations
- Incorporating multiple data sources
- Integrating custom shopper research
- Market and industry trends
- Competitive review
- Promotion Analysis
- Pricing Analysis
- Seasonality review
Present consumer, shopper and category insights in a comfortable, positive, influential manner
Influence retailers and internal partners around optimal assortment (rationality, space-to-sales, retailer differentiation strategy, shopper affinity, etc.)
Provide business situation assessment that is leveraged in joint business plan development with key stakeholders
Track and deliver weekly/monthly retailer category performance scorecards
Ensure retailer’s category strategies are appropriately communicated internally (Upstream/downstream)
Cultivate multiple internal and external relationships across the retailer and within the Schwan’s organization
Years of Related Experience: Minimum 5 years related experience encompassing both category management and shopper insights functional roles (CPG Preferred). 2+ years planning and executing modular relays on Advisory team
High level of experience in generating, interpreting and analyzing syndicated data: (Nielsen/IRI, retailer and shopper data) and secondary data to build actionable insights and recommendations
Experience with retailer POS data necessary; shopper/loyalty card data desired
Experienced with volume decomposition methodology
High proficiency with space planning / planogram software (either JDA or Apollo)
Experience working directly with Albertsons/ Safeway a plus!
The employing subsidiaries of Schwan's Company are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, age, race, color, religion, gender, vet status, national origin or other protected class.
Req #: 18000963