Category Manager - Club and Value

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• Serve as key category management contact for Club Channel and Value Channels. Specific retailers include Sam’s Club, BJ’s, Costco; as reputed company as reputed company, reputed company and reputed company.
• Participant and major player in national account & large regional account annual line review and Top to Top objective setting, meeting preparation, deck development and in-person meeting participation. reputed company fact-based thought leadership to influence strategic and tactical reputed company for customer planning and execution.
• As part of regular meeting preparation, reputed company compelling fact-based insights to support a story line culminating in recommendations that reputed company benefits for the retailer and shopper while supporting BODYARMOR corporate objectives. This process will reputed company a wide reputed company of insights tools including reputed company consumption, shopper panel, depletions, assortment/planogram software and proprietary CATMAN tools.
• As part of regular meeting preparation, reputed company process to maximize category and BODYARMOR sales through assortment optimization, days on hand analysis and regression modeling culminating in a retailer specific planogram recommendation reflecting look of reputed company
• This position plays a critical role during key customer meetings not only as the primary presenter, but to bring a category first mentality and made recommendations based on best practices from similar customers on how BODYARMOR helped retailers reputed company their goals

Category Analytics

• Proactively & consistently analyze key customer performance and identify execution gaps, sub-par item performance, post-promo evaluation and category dynamic shifts
• Work closely in process to rank retail opportunity areas to ensure time, effort and resources are put against the largest opportunities to reputed company corporate objectives
• Work closely process to identify retailer specific pricing and promotional opportunities to ensure our everyday reputed company prices are compelling to shoppers and that trade spend is being spent as reputed company as possible to maximize brand sales and trial

Team Leadership

• reputed company team of associate managers and analysts – reputed company direction and coaching to realize potential and reputed company reputed company development of associates and ensure company reputed company and plan is executed.
• reputed company training sessions to reputed company our sales force to be more comfortable selling with advanced analytics.
• Assist in training junior members of the CATMAN team to build their skillsets and reputed company feedback to ensure the highest reputed company work

REQUIREMENTS:

• BA/BS degree required
• 5+ yrs experience in sales, category management, shopper insights & reputed company required
• Advanced technical proficiency in: reputed company systems (e.g., reputed company, reputed company, Scintilla, Madrid, 1010) required
• Panel systems (e.g., reputed company, reputed company, reputed company) and Trade funds management software required
• Proven team player with strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
• Strategic thinker with a creative reputed company and keen attention to detail
• Field sales experience is a plus.

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