Category Manager - Grocery Channel
Apply NowCompany: Schwans
Location: Minneapolis, MN 55407
Description:
Schwan's Company, a U.S. affiliate of the global lifestyle brand CJ CheilJedang Corporation, is a leader in manufacturing and marketing quality foods enjoyed nationwide. We have beloved brands like Red Baron, Tony's, Big Daddy's, Villa Prima and Freschetta pizzas; bibigo, Pagoda Asian-style snacks and we can't forget Mrs. Smith's and Edwards pies! We bring families and communities together through great food. Join our team and see the opportunities are real, and the sky is the limit; this isn't just a job, it's a seat at the table!
Schwan's is hiring a Category Manager to join our team! In this customer-facing role, you will function as an expert in the frozen pizza, frozen desserts, frozen Asian, and Shelf Stable Asian category. As part of our headquarters-based 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:
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
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.
Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent; MBA preferred
Years of Related Experience: Minimum of 5 years related experience encompassing both category management and shopperinsights functional roles.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Software/computer skills and strong proficiency in Windows; experience managingmerchandising solutions; expert status in utilizing syndicated data as well as primary and secondary data to buildactionable insights. Strong category management and shopper insight knowledge across multiple markets and accounts.Knowledge of general business, marketing and advertising principles; strong organizational skills and attention todetail; solid data analysis capabilities of insight research; strong interpersonal skills; good communication skills;both verbal and written as well as the ability to make effective presentations before groups; deal effectively with a wide variety of people, ability to multi-task as well the willingness roll up one's sleeves to produce results;highly motivated team player who enjoys working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and must be willing to travel onoccasion.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications associated with the job. An individual must be able to perform all ofthe duties and responsibilities listed in a fully competent manner to be considered successful in the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individualswith disabilities to perform essential duties and responsibilities.
Schwan's is hiring a Category Manager to join our team! In this customer-facing role, you will function as an expert in the frozen pizza, frozen desserts, frozen Asian, and Shelf Stable Asian category. As part of our headquarters-based 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 reviews, promotion and pricing analysis and seasonality reviews
- 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
- Some travel (20%)
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years' experience in a role involving Category analysis and strategy
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or Masters preferred
- 5+ years' experience involving category management and strategy within the CPG industry ideally in food
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- 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
- Experience with volume decomposition methodology
- Space planning and planogram software (either JDA or Apollo)
- Strong presentation skills to retail buyers
- MS Office Suite, specifically Excel and PowerPoint
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.
Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent; MBA preferred
Years of Related Experience: Minimum of 5 years related experience encompassing both category management and shopperinsights functional roles.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Software/computer skills and strong proficiency in Windows; experience managingmerchandising solutions; expert status in utilizing syndicated data as well as primary and secondary data to buildactionable insights. Strong category management and shopper insight knowledge across multiple markets and accounts.Knowledge of general business, marketing and advertising principles; strong organizational skills and attention todetail; solid data analysis capabilities of insight research; strong interpersonal skills; good communication skills;both verbal and written as well as the ability to make effective presentations before groups; deal effectively with a wide variety of people, ability to multi-task as well the willingness roll up one's sleeves to produce results;highly motivated team player who enjoys working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and must be willing to travel onoccasion.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications associated with the job. An individual must be able to perform all ofthe duties and responsibilities listed in a fully competent manner to be considered successful in the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individualswith disabilities to perform essential duties and responsibilities.