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Category Manager, CPG - Full-time / Part-time
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Bloomington, MN Bloomington, Minnesota |
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 .
Position Purpose
- Achieve “Trusted Advisor” status with key customers like Meijer, Hy-Vee, Family Dollar, and Costco through measurable category improvement
Schwan's is hiring a Category Manager, to be based in our Bloomington, MN offices. In this customer-facing role, while leading a team of internal and broker resources, 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
- Promotions
- Pricing Analysis
- Seasonality
- Present consumer, shopper and category insights in a comfortable, positive, influential manner
- Influence retailers and internal partners around optimal assortment (Regionality, space-to-sales, retailer differentiation strategy, shopper affinity, etc.)
- Provide business situation assessment that is leveraged in joint business plan development with key stakeholders
- Tracking and delivery of weekly/monthly retailer category performance scorecard
- 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
- Direct and manage broker partners
- Some travel (10%)
Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent. MBA preferred
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
- Ability to influence and lead peers
- Ability to make decisions including the prioritization of projects, allocation of department resources, and acceptable risk levels
- Must be able to interact with industry personnel and represent the company well
- Must be a self-starter and able to lead the department on a daily basis
- Highly proficient/expertise in retrieval and manipulation of syndicated data and its dimensions
- AC Nielsen, NITRO, IRI Analyzer; competent in understanding traditional statistical formulas and mathematical measurements
- Strong abilities to graphically illustrate complex relationships from disaggregated data
- Experience and working knowledge of secondary research, market research methodologies and processes
- Ability to interpret and leverage Homescan Panel purchase dynamics;
- Above average skills in MS PowerPoint and Excel
- Competent in using Space Management Software (Spectra, JDA, Apollo etc) Word and Outlook
- Ability to research multiple and unknown data sources and synthesize large amounts of data
- Identifies cause and effect within data relationships to isolate issue drivers
- Clearly communicate orally and in writing with all levels of management.
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 #: 18001158