Category Leadership Advisor

Description

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At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

The Category Leadership Advisor is a customer-facing position that supports the National Accounts Area sales team by developing and presenting the LHD category strategy, shelving and assortment principles into the customer, with a focus on ensuring appropriate space and focus is dedicated in store to LHD products. This individual will collaborate with the Category Leadership Lead and National Accounts area sales team for our National Accounts customers.

This Category Leadership Advisor position is for National Accounts Food Retailers and Wholesalers.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

• Analyze syndicated data (Circana, Symphony, 84.51, Numerator, JDA, etc.) to identify key insights and business recommendations on distribution, assortment, pricing, and promotion
• Develop and cultivate relationships with Customer Category Managers
• Conduct assortment assessments and creates planograms
• Develop and integrate consumer, shopper and retailer insights to better inform targeted strategies, plans and decisions
• Leverage insight resources to prioritize consumer and shopper needs and opportunities
• Integrate data from a variety of sources to develop impactful customer-specific selling stories in support of key category business building initiatives.
• Leads broader space initiatives across aisle and store
• Partners with Customer Business Leads in the development of insight-based new item presentations
• Conduct training of customer teams to broaden their understanding of sales information and tools available for business tracking and analysis.

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years consumer package goods industry experience
• Strong analytic / problem solving capability
• Strong syndicated and panel data knowledge
• Space management software skills
• Good project management and training skills
• Ability to comprehend and sell space management concepts within the context of category management
• Effective communication skills and presentation skills
• Solid working knowledge of computers and related systems including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to Travel (up to 25%)

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.