Category Manager

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.
We are a high-performing, collaborative team driven by a competitive spirit. We bring proactive solutions to our retailer partners that are based on shopper insights. We foster a supportive team atmosphere to amplify individual strengths and curiosity. We actively engage with and give back to our community through volunteerism and outreach support. We value a diversity of talent, experiences, and backgrounds to expand our team culture.
What You'll Do

• Build lasting business relationships based on trust and confidence.
• Plan, execute, and maintain physical and digital shelving solutions that drive retailer growth strategies and satisfy shopper needs.
• Combine your curiosity with department level analytics to provide thought leadership through an Omni category management approach.
• Expand the advisor team's reach and influence with both external retailer stakeholders and internal cross-functional partners.

What You'll Need For Success

• Proactive business curiosity
• Demonstrate a growth oriented, problem-solving Mindset to answer ambiguous business questions
• Ability to thrive in a fast pace environment, comfortable with prioritizing multiple deliverables, and overlapping deadlines
• Possess a consultative selling approach with solid Business Analytics acumen to deliver cohesive, collaborative selling stories
• Experience building, executing, and maintaining the physical and digital shelf
• Solid understanding of which data source to leverage to answer the question (POS, Syndicated, Panel, Industry Insights)
• Capable of combining data visualization with supporting shopper insights into a cohesive, collaborative selling story

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Develop customer relationships through regular in-person and virtual engagements
• Develop and Lead category strategy reviews, translate strategy into priorities, and provide customer specific shelving and assortment recommendations
• Provide 30/60/90 Market Overviews, Identify Market Share Gap Opportunities, and Provide Retailer Recommendations
• Drive annual and adhoc modular relay process leveraging JDA, Shelf-IQ, and other space management tools
• Own reporting for the customer that tracks market share, POS drivers and drags, price leadership, volume forecasting
• Generate insights that drive business results using Luminate, IRI Unify, Nielsen Connect, Numerator PromoInsights, key modular and space metrics
• Craft a compelling, category focused selling story and gain customer alignment/support

Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's Degree Required
Experience: This position requires previous Category Management and/or CPG Sales experience (approximately 5-7 years minimum). Category management success within an Omni channel environment. Experience auditing and enhancing digital content, web enrichment, physical shelf management, and modular relay expertise.
The base salary range for this position is $117,400 to $161,425; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. 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/Affirmative Action employer. 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.
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