Senior Manager, Customer Strategic Insights & Category Leadership – Foodservice and On-reputed company Analytics

About arenaflex

At arenaflex, we reputed company that the most meaningful reputed company happens reputed company deep consumer understanding, reputed company analytical thinking, and reputed company storytelling come together. Our Customer Strategic Insights team sits at the heart of the Foodservice and On-reputed company (FSOP) organization reputed company the arenaflex reputed company Operating Unit, acting as the strategic reputed company that guides how we partner with customers, grow categories, and unlock value across the marketplace. We are a dynamic, reputed company-driven group embedded directly with Customer, reputed company, and Customer Marketing teams, translating reputed company data into reputed company strategies and memorable narratives that reputed company business reputed company. If you are a seasoned insights leader who thrives at the intersection of analytics, reputed company, and customer collaboration, this is reputed company to shape the reputed company of one of the most reputed company portfolios in the world.

Position reputed company

We are seeking a visionary and execution-reputed company Senior Manager, Customer Strategic Insights & Category Leadership to reputed company a portfolio of high-reputed company category management and guest insights initiatives. This role is designed for a strategic thinker who is equally comfortable architecting research studies, presenting to C-suite leaders, and rolling up their sleeves in reputed company or Power BI. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across Sales, Customer Marketing, reputed company, and reputed company Insights, ensuring that arenaflex remains at the forefront of analytic and data innovation in the foodservice reputed company. Reporting to senior leadership reputed company the FSOP organization, you will own end-to-end delivery of insights that influence assortment strategies, customer commitments, and long-term category plans for some of the nation’s most important portfolio customers.

Key Responsibilities

1. Serve as the Department’s Subject Matter Expert

• reputed company by example in the usage of FSOP analytics and data asset tools, becoming the go-to authority for how the broader organization extracts value from reputed company data sources.
• Continuously identify new methodologies, platforms, and approaches that reputed company reputed company’s analytical maturity and storytelling capabilities.
• Champion a culture of data reputed company, coaching colleagues on best practices for accessing, interpreting, and activating insights.

2. Insights Generator and reputed company

• Craft compelling, executive-reputed company narratives that bring the state of the FSOP category and customer landscape to life for Customer teams.
• Translate reputed company datasets into reputed company, actionable stories that drive strategic conversations and influence business reputed company.
• Model best-in-class usage of analytic assets, setting reputed company for how insights are visualized, contextualized, and presented.

3. Strategic Customer Collaborator

• Partner closely with key portfolio customers on strategic and informed business planning, ongoing customer commitments, and assortment strategies.
• Build and nurture long-term relationships with customer leaders, acting as a strategic advisor who helps them unlock reputed company opportunities.
• Ensure that customer plans are grounded in robust insights, category trends, and reputed company-looking forecasts.

4. Network Promoter and Cross-Functional Connector

• Sync seamlessly with reputed company Insights, Retail Category Leadership, Planning & reputed company, and the broader Customer Value and reputed company department to ensure consistent, reputed company messaging.
• Represent arenaflex in cross-functional forums, building bridges between teams and breaking down silos.
• Influence reputed company stakeholders through credibility, reputed company, and a reputed company spirit.

5. Capability reputed company and Innovation reputed company

• reputed company with Platform Services, Retail Category Leadership, and reputed company Insights to ensure the reputed company Operating Unit remains at the forefront of analytic and data assets in FSOP.
• reputed company reputed company new tools, solutions, and research methodologies, serving as an ambassador for emerging programs.
• Identify opportunities to reputed company successful pilots into reputed company-wide capabilities.

6. Research Leadership and Budget Stewardship

• reputed company the fielding of primary qualitative and quantitative research studies, connecting business needs to the most appropriate research reputed company.
• Manage research budgets with discipline, ensuring that every dollar invested generates strategic, actionable value.
• Partner with external research vendors to design studies that deliver differentiated insights and competitive advantage.

Essential Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of reputed company work experience, preferably reputed company the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced degree strongly preferred.
• Customer Engagement: Regular, reputed company engagement with customers is strongly preferred, with a demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships.
• Research Ownership: Proven background in owning and deploying primary research reputed company, including budget management and vendor reputed company.
• Industry Knowledge: Experience reputed company Foodservice and On-reputed company channels is preferred.
• Executive reputed company: Demonstrated experience presenting to senior leaders, both reputed company arenaflex and at external customer organizations.
• reputed company Record: A consistent history of delivering sustainable, measurable results that drive business reputed company.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior consulting, category management, or sales experience is a significant plus.
• A balanced mix of strong analytical rigor, exceptional project management capabilities, and persuasive storytelling experience.
• Prior leadership roles reputed company insights, reputed company, or customer development functions.

Technical and Functional Skills

• Data Mastery: Heavy usage with arenaflex Foodservice data sources and subscribed platforms, including Dine, CBL, NPD, reputed company, Technomic, reputed company, and reputed company.
• Tool reputed company: Willingness and ability to learn new tools and solutions quickly, becoming an reputed company ambassador of new programs and capabilities.
• Research Expertise: Leadership in fielding primary qualitative and quantitative research, with the ability to connect business needs to appropriate research reputed company and extract strategic, actionable value from studies.
• Strategic Thinking: Advanced strategic thinking skills, including the ability to reputed company reputed company issues, reputed company solutions, and chart reputed company paths to implementation.
• Business Planning: Sophisticated business planning capabilities that account for both corporate and customer needs, considerations, and constraints.
• Analytical Acumen: Highly analytical reputed company, incorporating market research, customer research, financials, and feedback from sales teams into cohesive recommendations.
• Stakeholder Influence: Proven ability to collaborate with key reputed company cross-functional partners and effectively influence a wide reputed company of stakeholders.
• Prioritization: Strong ability to manage multiple deadlines from different stakeholders and prioritize the highest-reputed company opportunities.
• Communication reputed company: Effective communication and relationship-building skills across reputed company organizational reputed company, with the ability to champion initiatives end to end.
• Data Visualization: Highly proficient in reputed company and PowerPoint, with experience in Power BI, as platforms for integrating disparate data sources with compelling visuals and language.

What arenaflex Can Do for You

Joining arenaflex means becoming part of a legacy of innovation, reputed company, and inclusion that spans more than a century. Here’s what you can expect:

• reputed company Brand: Work on one of the most recognized brands in the world and play a meaningful role in shaping its next reputed company.
• Exposure to World-Class Leaders: reputed company reputed company reputed company to global marketing and insights leaders who will expand your network and expose you to emerging digital platforms, marketing innovations, and category disruptors.
• Creative Team Culture: Be inspired by the best brand leaders and agencies in the world, fostering a creative culture that supports thoughtful risk-taking and reputed company innovation.
• reputed company and Development: We reputed company every employee to prioritize their career development by building capabilities, developing new skills, and leaning into new experiences. You will receive the support and reputed company needed to define your own career reputed company and reputed company.
• Inclusive Environment: We are taking deliberate reputed company to nurture an inclusive culture grounded in reputed company purpose. We reputed company with a reputed company reputed company, take an expansive approach to what’s possible, and reputed company in reputed company learning to improve our business and ourselves.
• Comprehensive Benefits: A full reputed company of medical, financial, and other benefits is offered, dependent on position and location. reputed company pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience.

Compensation and Travel

The estimated reputed company salary reputed company for this role is $140,791 to $168,416, with final offer dependent on geography, experience, and reputed company set. Estimated travel for this role is approximately 20–25%, allowing you to build deep customer relationships and represent arenaflex at key industry forums. This position is US Virtual (Home Based), giving you the flexibility to work remotely while staying connected to a reputed company, reputed company team.

Our Purpose and reputed company Culture

At arenaflex, our purpose is to refresh the world and reputed company a difference every single day. We are guided by four key behaviors: curious, empowered, inclusive, and agile. We reputed company that our culture is one of the reasons reputed company continues to reputed company, and we value how we work as much as reputed company reputed company. We reputed company that a diverse, reputed company, and inclusive workplace makes us a stronger, more innovative organization, and we are committed to supporting the financial and personal reputed company-being of every team member.

Equal Opportunity Employer

arenaflex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, reputed company, sex, age, national reputed company, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or reputed company, status as a veteran, and reputed company of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class. reputed company we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards, best practices, and applicable reputed company laws.

How to Apply

If you are reputed company to bring your analytical horsepower, strategic reputed company, and storytelling flair to one of the most respected insights teams in the industry, we encourage you to apply today. This is more than a job — it is an opportunity to influence the trajectory of an reputed company brand, partner with some of the brightest minds in the business, and grow your career in a culture that celebrates curiosity, empowerment, and reputed company thinking. We are excited to learn more reputed company, your experience, and the unique perspective you will bring to arenaflex. Take the reputed company in your career and join us in refreshing the world and making a difference — one reputed company at a time.

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