The Senior Category Manager drives category strategy and insights, sets growth targets, and leads a team to optimize category performance and client relationships.
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
Summary:
This role sets the direction of and then leverages insights & learning from broader category team to deliver strategic roadmaps, targets, and tracking.
About You:
Are you an entrepreneurial sales superstar? With a love of chocolate bordering on the dangerous? Then Hu would be honored to have you on our team.
Responsibilities:
Category Strategy & Development:
Category Insights & Research:
Category Team Leader:
The requirements of the role are:
Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $122,000 to $167,750; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
Analytics & Modelling
Analytics & Data Science
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
Summary:
This role sets the direction of and then leverages insights & learning from broader category team to deliver strategic roadmaps, targets, and tracking.
About You:
Are you an entrepreneurial sales superstar? With a love of chocolate bordering on the dangerous? Then Hu would be honored to have you on our team.
Responsibilities:
Category Strategy & Development:
- Identify headroom for growth, setting strategic targets on category share & channel distribution across the Hu & Enjoy Life portfolios.
- Define category & competitive landscape informing brand x category. roadmap for both annual planning and multi-year planning.
- Assess consumption performance v. in-year & longer-term roadmaps.
- Identify future fit categories in partnership with innovation team.
- Support channel & customer development (CCD) team in delivering category toolkits & influencing MAPs strategy.
Category Insights & Research:
- Set category learning objectives & required budgets in concert with Category Insights Manager (CIM), Insights & Analytics partners (I&A), and Brand team.
- Deliver regular category reporting to North America & North American Ventures businesses to illustrate brand priorities & latest learnings.
- Utilize & prioritize suite of tools developed by CIM to identify gaps & opportunities for strengthening category x brand insights.
Category Team Leader:
- Ensure category team delivers on proper tracking to key metrics with robust reporting on category trends, competitive brand performance, consumer trends, customer performance.
- Support CIM in refreshing & expanding master selling story in support of category reviews.
- Unlock cross-team communication to ensure alignment of objectives, research, and budgets across broader sales x brand x I&A teams.
- Oversee team priorities & goal setting, support day-to-day management of category team, foster growth & development within category team.
The requirements of the role are:
- Dynamic, hands-on leader with demonstrated success as both a top-performing CPG salesperson and as a leader on winning teams.
- Deep understanding of Nielsen & Spins with the ability to develop a category story and key KPIs to outperform category growth.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience managing category insights and long-term strategy growth.
- Self-starter with the ability to take insights from data and put them to action in conjunction with RGM team.
- Extensive experience developing and executing highly impactful selling strategies.
- Adept at fostering strong partnerships with sales, marketing and RGM to develop a cohesive strategy that meets all company objectives.
- Fluent in Microsoft Office and excel.
Salary and Benefits:
The base salary range for this position is $122,000 to $167,750; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
For more information about your Federal rights, please see eeopost.pdf; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
Job Type
Regular
Analytics & Modelling
Analytics & Data Science
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