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About the role
- Category Manager helping Mars grow snacking categories through retail analytics, assortment, shelving, and merchandising recommendations. Advising retail partners and driving category performance through actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Understand and analyze the category
- Provide objective, strategic, and tactical category insights and recommendations to retail partners
- Translate insights into recommendations across assortment, shelving, merchandising, and modular development
- Serve as a trusted advisor to customers and partner with internal stakeholders
- Provide reporting, analytics, and strategic insights supporting business growth and decision-making
- Communicate externally with key retail partners
- Support ad hoc requests, ongoing reporting, strategy reviews, shelf planning and creation, and insight generation
- Lead insight-driven category growth strategies
- Advise customer merchants and category teams with data-backed recommendations
- Lead annual and ongoing category planning and develop strategic action plans
- Leverage retailer, shopper, consumer, and syndicated data to uncover insights and performance drivers
- Drive category and space optimization through modular development, assortment analyses, productivity assessments, and post-implementation reviews
- Create and deliver insight-led presentations for customer, category, and business reviews
- Champion best practices in category management, analytics, reporting, and storytelling
- Partner with customer and internal omnichannel teams to improve digital shelf performance and shopper experience
- Develop and maintain internal reporting
- Conduct ad hoc business-performance analyses
- Improve reporting processes and analytical tools
- Report to the Team Lead
Requirements
- Postsecondary education or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 5+ years of CPG industry experience in Category Management, Sales Strategy, Insights, or related commercial functions
- Advanced analytical capabilities using syndicated, POS, and customer data sources
- Experience with Nielsen Discover, Retail Link, Scintilla, JDA/Space Planning Software, Excel, and PowerPoint
- High-level analytical capability and ability to interpret multiple disparate data sources
- Experience translating analytics into strategic insights that drive business growth and support decision-making
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Ability to tailor complex information to audiences with varying expertise
- Strong ability to teach/consult on business insight development through data analytics
Benefits
- Company bonus
- Industry competitive salary and benefits package
- Learning and development support from day one
- Access to Mars University
- Flexible work arrangements, including remote work
- Work with diverse and talented Associates
- Purpose-driven company
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