Director of Category Management

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Flowers Foods & Subsidiaries

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1919

📦 Logistics

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2021-03

Logistics • Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Flowers Foods & Subsidiaries is a company that specializes in the production and distribution of bakery products. With a diverse workforce, it offers a range of career opportunities and training in areas such as production, management, and sales. Flowers Foods is committed to creating an excellent working environment, providing competitive salaries and benefits, and fostering a culture of inclusion within its independent subsidiaries.

📋 Description

• Maintain the vision and delivery of category management and competitive reporting capabilities • Own the tools, data and information utilized by the category management team • Recommend and implement category management tools with corporate and customer category management teams • Develop team members’ category management skills and professionalism • Deliver fact-based consumer insights and category performance evaluations to top retail customers • Provide market and competitive assessment, category trends, product assortment, new product performance, pricing and promotion effectiveness analysis • Interact directly with key decision makers at Flowers customers • Supplement field account teams with periodic insight meetings • Provide complete category management support to regional accounts • Build insights and category management templates for account and field teams • Review and recommend data, research and tools supporting the category management process • Generate consumer and shopper insights for brand, national account and field sales decision-making • Develop selling stories for new products, new market authorization and business initiatives • Identify emerging trends, missed opportunities and improved modular efficiencies • Provide actionable category insights and recommendations to buyers • Supervise direct reports and support their growth and development • Foster learning, professional development and professionalism exceeding customer expectations • Ensure team members remain current in syndicated data and space planning tool training and utilization • Comply with company policies and procedures • Perform other duties assigned by management

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years experience in sales/ marketing required • Bachelor’s degree in related field is required • Master’s degree in related field is recommended • Objective analysis skills • Advanced spreadsheet skills • Written presentation preparation skills • Clear communication skills • Knowledge of how brands, product assortment, distribution, merchandising, pricing and promotions impact the retailer’s category and each manufacturer’s performance • Competency for all on-the-job activities affecting product safety, legality and/or quality

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and medical benefits • 401(k) Retirement savings plan • Professional growth and leadership training • Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave • Competitive salary • Excellent total rewards package

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