National Category Insights Manager

Your Story.

As a key member of the CPD Sales Category Management team, you will provide the National, West Geo and Central teams with key strategic insights, solutions and analytics required to influence category management. You will take a leading role in enabling the evolution and execution of our category management efforts across CPD. Your passion for developing actionable category and shopper insights from both a national and key retailer perspective through your ownership and development of category/business reviews, joint business planning and innovation presentations in partnership with sales..

Your Passion.Our Culture.

At Sargento, you work for a company you believe in, with a family of people who believe in you. Our culture stems from a simple premise: Hire good people and treat them like family. At Sargento, you can make decisions based on how they affect people as well as the long-term health of our company. You will be encouraged to make a meaningful difference in the community, in the company and in your career. With diverse experiences and tools to learn and develop, you can transform your aspirations into reality. If you're ready for the right place to belong and grow your career, you can find it here.

Benefits that set us apart.

• Comprehensive medicalincluding Fertility, Adoption benefits, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Work Week
  
  
  
  • Hybrid work schedule - Onsite Tuesday - Thursday with the option to work remotely Monday and Friday
  • Compressed work week - Option of day Friday
  
  
  
  
• Onsite Health & Wellness Center
• Employer 401K contribution in the top 1% of the nation
• Relocation Assistance
• Tuition Assistance
• Access to Employee Store

What You Do.

• Reporting to the Director - Category Management, this person will serve as an industry leader within category management, applying sound understanding of current and emerging syndicated and shopper insight platforms to uncover avenues to drive sustainable growth.
• Serve as the primary category management expert for select regional accounts, collaborating with field-based sales team.
• Working throughout the division, you will leverage insights and multiple data sources to ensure category strategies influence actions that will drive category growth.
• Proactively develop and manage national and key account category and consumer insights, driving key brand strategies and generating best in class insights in a way that influences business strategies and tactics.
• Proactively create best practices by identifying opportunities and recommending new methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Assist in facilitating sharing across the organization - HQ and Field Sales, Marketing, Insights and sales agencies.
• Be a leader in developing strong analytical competencies and fact-based selling skills through training, implementation of analytical tools and executing training which convert value-added insights into selling propositions.
• Leverage your story-telling abilities along with data, insights, and shopper intelligence to influence long-term category management plans for National and the retailer's objectives, align category strategies, and drive sales.
• Focused project work as assigned by the Director - Category Management.
• Responsible for analyzing customer-specific information, including syndicated data, internal Sargento data, and retailer data (POS, loyalty, etc.) to measure category and brand effectiveness.
• Provide recommendations for improving customer category and brand growth and profitability.
• Partner with sales agency dedicated Category and Space Manager to effectively leverage their insights, tools and data.
• Support sales-focused projects by aligning business objectives with study design, managing execution, and developing and communicating actionable recommendations.
• Cultivate multiple internal and external relationships across customers and within Sargento and our agency resources to elevate category management.
• Must be able to travel - projected to be up to 20-25% of the time.

Your Education and Experience.

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university
• Five plus years CPG industry experience.
• Prior category captaincy or advisory experience required.
• Proficiency in Luminate, Nielsen, and/or Circana databases required.
• Experience with Shopper card data and insights are strongly preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Our Story.

With over 2,400+ employees and net sales of $1.8 billion, Sargento Foods is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 70 years. We created the world's first, successful pre-packaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses. Sargento is based in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where we manufacture and market shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients and sauces. Sargento is known for the exceptional quality of our products and for product design, packaging and merchandising innovations that have transformed our industry.

To learn more about our culture and values, please visit our website athttps://careers.sargento.com/us/en.

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