Senior Category Manager

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❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $97k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Cargill

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1865

🌾 Agriculture

🚗 Transport

Agriculture • Food & Beverage • Transport

Cargill is a global corporation focused on enhancing the world's food supply chain. With a workforce of 160,000 team members across 70 countries, Cargill collaborates with farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, foodservice providers, and retailers to source, produce, and deliver vital food, agricultural, and industrial products. The company is dedicated to improving global food security while minimizing environmental impact through sustainable practices and innovative solutions. Cargill's operations span various sectors including agriculture, animal nutrition, beauty products, bioindustrial solutions, food service, pharmaceuticals, meat and poultry, risk management, supplements, and transportation. The company's mission is to nourish the world in a responsible and sustainable manner, leveraging its extensive supply chain network and resources to create opportunities for growth and prosperity.

📋 Description

• Lead category management for key accounts delivering actionable recommendations across assortment, space planning, and promotional activities • Build scorecards and benchmarking to track performance and inform joint business planning • Synthesize multiple data sources (POS, syndicated, shipment, retailer inputs) into clear, defensible insights • Develop category stories that move beyond reporting to influence retailer decisions • Evaluate promotional effectiveness and pricing strategies to improve category and portfolio outcomes • Lead development and deployment of AMPS/4P framework across species portfolios • Create repeatable toolkits (segmentation, assortment frameworks, space logic) that scale across accounts • Expand team knowledge and skillset of category management • Partner across sales, customer marketing, portfolio/species teams to align recommendations and business priorities • Ensure current strategies reflect retailer goals, shopper behavior, and portfolio strategy • Act as liaison for retail-embedded field analysts; set priorities and standardize outputs • Build and manage a consistent cadence of scorecards, insights reviews, and category updates • Improve data integration and reporting efficiency over time

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of work experience in category management, shopper insights, retail analytics within CPG, animal nutrition, or adjacent industry • Demonstrated ability to influence retail partners with fact-based assortment, pricing, space, and promotional analytics and recommendations • Excellent communication and presentation skills • Strong data analytic skills with experience working across customer data platforms and syndicated tools like Numerator, Stackline, Nielsen/IRI, Euromonitor, etc. • Advanced experience in building data visualization and performing analytics within business intelligence tools: Tableau, PowerBI • Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a matrixed organization

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Paid time off • Discretionary incentive award