Manager, Category Analytics

🔥 14 hours ago

🏈 Ohio – Remote

🏈 Ohio – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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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

• Build trust and influence with assigned retailers and support Smucker’s sales teams to drive brand penetration, growth, and development across designated categories and JMS Brand activation • Lead customized development of category-specific retailer growth opportunities and diagnostics based on retailer, shopper, and category dynamics • Support sales with insights for JBP’s, line reviews, and customer annual sales planning • Deliver category and JMS growth opportunity identification and execution • Provide in-depth category, retail, consumer, and shopper expertise for sales initiatives • Act as liaison to HQ category leadership/strategy team • Lead development and delivery of customer-specific Category Growth Drivers, strategies, initiatives, and customized content • Lead 4P tactical solutions for assigned customers and categories, owning shelving and assortment and partnering on price/promotion • Provide thought leadership to elevate Smucker’s voice and influence with assigned retailers • Lead category-first approaches in Customer Category Reviews, Assessments, Top to Top, JBP, and QBR meetings • Influence retailer category strategies through account-specific insights, business analysis, and recommendations on distribution, promotion, pricing, and shelf placement • Build customer-ready stories, visuals, and tools supported by insights and data-driven recommendations • Anchor planning and execution in facts and performance; track results, promotional/innovation effectiveness, risks, and opportunities • Identify category and JMS opportunities and risks with bias for action • Leverage consumer, shopper, and category insights to create fact-based strategic selling and retail activation • Support and drive omni activation and integration into category deliverables and workstreams • Collaborate with category advisor teams and sales to drive the business • Understand the competitive marketplace for JMS and customers • Communicate insights and learnings internally and externally to varied audiences • Provide category and key customer business analytics • Participate in retailer meetings • Collaborate and influence across various SBAs • Partner with Sales, Marketing, Insights, Intelligence, Category Strategy, and other functions to identify opportunities and translate insights into execution • Serve as expert on customer business analytics and resources, including Circana, panel, and customer-specific data • Identify requirements for tool development and data support systems to improve visibility and use of category insights • Act as liaison to JMS HQ Category Leadership • Provide input into customer long-term business strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree • 6+ years in Consumer-Packaged Goods industry • 3+ years Category Management or Shopper Insights experience • Proven success in building relationships within customers / retailers • Experience in analysis of shopper / consumer-based CPG information • Strong analytical skills, problem solving, and storytelling experience • Cross functional collaboration, especially customer and sales centric • Excellent organization and written / verbal communication skills • Proficient in leveraging Circana or Nielsen data, POS and panel data, shopper card, customer specific data, etc. • Planogramming/Planogram software experience (Ex. JDA ProSpace, EZPOG) • Ability to develop and translate insights into actions with excellent story telling with data skills • Strategic mindset to help build and execute effective plans • Business & Financial Acumen • Ability to travel up to 20-25% • MBA is additional, not required • Experience working cross functionally in a Headquarter environment is additional, not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Supporting employees' physical, emotional, and financial needs • Equal opportunity employment