Associate Manager, Category Strategy

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🏈 Ohio – Remote

🏈 Ohio – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

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The J.M. Smucker Co.

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1897

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Marketing • Logistics • Healthcare

The J. M. Smucker Co. is a leading manufacturer of a wide range of consumer products that are a part of everyday life for many families. Its extensive portfolio includes brands specializing in food products such as coffee, frozen handhelds, spreads, sweet baked snacks, and pet foods and snacks. The company's commitment to quality, innovation, and sustainability is evident in its operations and product offerings. The J. M. Smucker Co. aims to deliver products that consumers trust and enjoy, focusing on inclusivity, diversity, ethics, and community impact.

📋 Description

• Provide in-depth category, consumer, and shopper expertise to field category leadership, sales, insights, brand marketing, and innovation teams • Develop Category Leadership 4P Guiding Principles and compelling category strategies • Identify and create new insights and category opportunities using available data and insight resources • Translate category strategies into action plans with guidance on placement, product mix, pricing, and promotion • Understand the competitive marketplace in which JMS and customers operate • Develop materials for Top-to-Top meetings with key customers • Communicate insights and learnings internally and externally to varied audiences • Collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree • 4+ years of Consumer-Packaged Goods Industry experience • 3+ years of Shopper Insights or Category Management experience • Customer-facing experience • Proficiency leveraging IRI, Nielsen, and panel data • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and storytelling experience • Experience building relationships with customers and retailers • Experience analyzing shopper- and consumer-based CPG information • Excellent organization and written/verbal communication skills • Ability to develop and translate insights into actions • Strategic mindset to build and execute effective plans • Business and financial acumen • Ability to travel up to 10% • Planogramming/planogram software experience (JDA, EZPOG) is an additional, non-required skill

🏖️ Benefits

• Support for employees’ physical, emotional, and financial needs • Competitive Total Rewards program • Growth and development support • Collaboration-focused workplace culture • Equal opportunity employment