Associate Manager Category Leadership

• Actively stay abreast of industry trends to provide relevant targets and goals
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize category, distributor, and market data into actionable insights for internal and external partners
• Support internal sales teams and external customers, and as needed participate in customer calls and meetings, through development of monthly reporting and dashboards, creation of business reviews/joint business planning initiatives, development of assortment analysis and product mix performance, and other requests as needed to deliver against commercial objectives
• Stay closely connected to key sales and customer partners through regular meetings and working sessions, ensuring category insights, analyses, and tools are delivered in support of agreed-upon needs and requests
• Proactively surface insights, risks, and opportunities based on ongoing category and competitive performance tracking to Marketing and Sales leadership
• Identify where category growth is occurring, which segments and products are driving performance, competitive gaps to ROM, and where whitespace or share-gain opportunities exist to support execution of Marketing, Innovation, and Sales objectives
• Collaborate with Marketing and Portfolio Management to inform go-to-market strategies, portfolio mix decisions, and innovation planning and execution
• Maintain data governance across category- and customer-level data sources by using approved tools, definitions, and processes, and partnering with external data providers to ensure accuracy, consistency, and appropriate application in Sales and Marketing use cases
• Develop and maintain recurring data reports and dashboards
• execute ad hoc reporting using internal sales data, syndicated consumption data, and shipment metrics.

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5-7 years of related industry experience or a related combination of education and experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• In-depth expertise in the use and applications of a variety of technologies and tools, including Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, Scorecard development, Look Ups, advanced Formulas) and industry related data sources (NPD Supply & Potato Tracks, Spectra, Technomic, Datessentials, Firefly)
• Up to 15% travel

SAP and Salesforce experience preferred

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
• Paid Time Off
• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
• Family-Friendly Employee events
• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services