Sr Manager Category Strategy - Solon, OH

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Position Summary

Developand deploycategory strategy for a consumer-based portfolio of categories. In this role, you will serve as a sales performance coach and strong change leader to drive adoption of the strategic direction for the division.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Marketing and Sales team on category strategy and division initiatives to include innovation pipeline development that will drive category growth.
• Responsible for the development, maintenance and deployment of rolling 3-year category strategy roadmap, by channel, to support division's Market Business Strategy (MBS).
• Review trends, marketplace assessments, category, consumer and shopper analysis reviews and stakeholder interviews to produce a situation assessment with key learnings, implications, and recommendations.
• Leverage CMI for Shopper Insights & Trends
• Collect Retailer Feedback on Category Story with input from ADs / CAMs
• Actas Integrated Commercial Planning process champion

Category Strategy:

• Develop the Category Strategy & Roadmap (by channel) based on internal and external analysis, feedback from customer partners, and the annual integration commercial planning process
• Develop 4Ps strategic direction based on category strategy, best practices from customers/account teams and quantitative feedback.
• Provide strategic direction into the overall commercial plan using the planning processes: ICP Gate 1 (Division MBS), ICP Gate 2 (Category Strategies and Tactics)
• Develop Training & Deployment Plan of Roadmap
• Customer category strategies through JBP and a Category First approach.

Customer Strategy:

• Achieve HPT within the assigned commercial spend budgets
• Lead development of key selling strategies
• Develop and foster collaborative relationships with customer teams
• Support development of Core and Develop customers
• Gather input from Core and Develop customers on effectiveness of CAP's, Roadmaps and strategic direction.

Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience Sales, Sales Planning, Marketing, Category Management and/or CPG.
• Working knowledge of Channel of trade and Customer base
• Strong oral and written communication and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and develop people
• Demonstrated ability to utilize technology to drive business results
• Knowledge of interrelationship of key functions and their key initiatives (Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Technical and Globe & IS/IT)
• Knowledge of MBS and Integrated Commercial Planning process
• Knowledge of Customer Best Practice, Market Intelligence, Category/Channel/ Shopper trends and shopper Insight into actionable ideas
• Demonstrated knowledge of business driving technology solutions (i.e. Nielsen, BW, Source) and internal/external industry insights and trends
• Knowledge of core Business Processes and Fundamentals (Sales/Distribution, Customer Planning and Managing, Financial Reporting, Training, HR Policies, Integrated Commercial Planning, Management and Leadership Principles)

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