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$94k–$123k/yr
Full-time
bachelor degree, postgraduate degree
Comprehensive Benefits Package, Annual Bonus Eligibility, 401k, Company Match
Posted 50d ago
~40 hrs/week
Remote in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Responsibilities
The Category Manager serves as a subject matter expert on shelving, assortment management, and analytics to drive category growth. They lead space management projects and collaborate with sales teams and retailers to optimize product placement and performance.
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in Sales, Marketing, or Business and at least 5 years of CPG category management experience. Proficiency in space management software like JDA or Apollo and experience with POS and panel data are essential.
Full job description
Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!
More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.
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Come join the largest baking company in the world and our family of 20,000 associates nationwide!
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Salary Range: $94,300 - $122,600
Comprehensive Benefits Package
Annual Bonus Eligibility
401k & Company Match
This Position is Remote Eligible
Position Summary:
The Category Manager is a professional who is the subject matter expert on shelving/ assortment management and analytics and in understanding consumer and category trends. This role is grounded in insights and acts in the best interest of the category. The Category Manager is part of a dynamic and diverse functional team working to increase the utility of various category management tools through training, establishing processes, and sharing of best practices. This job plays a critical role in BBU’s broader Account Sales Team and will proactively influence how BBU Wins at the Shelf. Ultimately, this role exists to create short- and long-term value to its assigned retailers and BBU.
Key Responsibilities:
Proactively identify and lead category management initiatives that drive category growth while increasing BBU’s sales, share, and profits. This should include interpreting shopper and category insights, optimizing product assortment, evaluating product placement, and proposing solutions to improve overall category performance.
Serve as the Category Management expert and advisor to leadership. Influence decisions makers by reviewing and analyzing shelf space opportunities, as well as current business trends and category performance within the market and industry.
Responsible for leading and delivering space management projects for all assigned customers.
Proactively communicating and working with Account Sales Team, Brands, Business Units, and RGM on assortment opportunities, including void closures, at risk items, innovation, and core assortment
Build and maintain long-term relationships with assigned retailers. Leverage insights and recommend action plans for assigned retailers by developing persuasive fact-based sales presentations that leverage customer, industry, market and competitive information
Maintain frequent and fluid communication with internal and external stake holders regarding projects, insights, and/or opportunities, for self and for the team.
Build and maintain reporting, as well as communicate findings gleaned from them.
Other duties as assigned.
Key Behavioral Competencies:
Ability to proactively identify needs and opportunities, then establish a plan to meet those needs.
Ability to effectively create and implement programs for area of responsibility.
Collaborative and able to align with internal and external stakeholders.
Curious and willing to investigate root causes of in market performance results.
Education and Work History:
Bachelor’s Degree in Sales, Marketing or Business related field. Advanced degree preferred.
Ideal candidate will possess:
5+ years of customer facing experience in the CPG industry and Category Management. Grocery and Mass channel experience is preferred.
Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
Proven experience converting data into logical, actionable strategies.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Comfortable presenting to Customers and Senior Executives.
Highly motivated self-starter with strong project management skills, capable of multi-tasking in a matrix organization.
Thorough understanding of POS and Panel data, and experience with retailer shopper card data sets.
Experience managing people, including the creation of development plans and defining accountabilities.
Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of products, i.e. Excel and PowerPoint, and of space management software, i.e. JDA or Apollo.
Travel up to 20%
The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be requested to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, any other classification protected by law.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
With many of America’s most beloved bread and sweet baked goods brands, we are the nation’s leading baking company!
Industry
Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Company size
10,001+ employees
Headquarters
Horsham, Pennsylvania
LinkedIn followers
293,645
Total funding
$1.3B
Have you ever started your morning with a Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or bitten into the perfect slice of Sara Lee® bread? Do you break open a fresh box of Entenmann’s® donuts at family gatherings? If so, you’re already a fan of Bimbo Bakeries USA – the powerhouse behind these iconic brands!
Bimbo Bakeries USA is part of Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company with operations in 39 countries. Bimbo Bakeries USA employs 20,000 associates across the Country in bakeries, sales centers, corporate offices and on sales routes to ensure our consumers have the freshest products to feed their families at every meal.
Offices: 355 Business Center Dr, Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044, US · 255 Business Center Dr, Horsham, PA 19044, US
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