Category Manager - Insights

Category Manager - Insights

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minnesota

Description

(Overview)

Schwan’s Company, a U.S. affiliate of the global lifestyle company, CJ CheilJedang Corporation, is a leading U.S. manufacturer and marketer of quality foods offered through retail-grocery and food-service channels. Our many popular brands include Red Baron®, Tony’s®, Big Daddy’s®, Villa Prima™ and Freschetta® pizza; Mrs. Smith’s® and Edwards® desserts; and Pagoda® and Bibigo Asian-style snacks. Schwan’s is a place for people with an appetite for more. To learn about joining a team where you can belong, contribute, and thrive, visit www.schwanscompany.com

Schwan's is hiring a Category Insights Manager, to be based in Bloomington, MN. As part of the home office insights center of excellence, every day will bring a variety of opportunities for your thought leadership. Your critical thinking skills will grow as you build strategic rationales using your objective Consumer and Shopper-centric analytics. Your influence will be based on factual insights which will help drive profitable growth for retailers and for Schwan’s.

Responsibilities

• Some travel (20%)
• Present consumer, shopper and category insights in a comfortable, positive, influential manner
• Compile and synthesize key trends, competitor activity, threats and opportunities based on continuous monitoring of the external market.
• Cultivate multiple internal and external relationships across the retailer and within the Schwan’s organization
• Work closely with commercialization team to create category landscapes and narratives to support innovation and company strategies
• Develop customer-facing category presentations complete with actionable recommendations: Incorporating multiple data sources, Integrating custom shopper research, Market and industry trends, Competitive review, Promotion Analysis, Pricing Analysis and Seasonality review
• Manage multiple data and insight sources to synthesize a single coherent narrative in response to business issues and support decisions.
• Provide strategic guidance by identifying and evaluating attractive product, customer and market segments, and developing actionable recommendations.

Qualifications

Education:Bachelor's Degree or equivalent; MBA preferred

Years of Related Experience: 1+ years’ experience in related fields for Category Managers (CPG Preferred)

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Strong presentation skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent with Excel and PowerPoint
• Experienced with volume decomposition methodology 
• Experience with retailer POS data necessary; shopper/loyalty card data desired 
• High level of experience in generating, interpreting and analyzing syndicated data: (Nielsen/IRI, retailer and shopper data) and secondary data to build actionable insights and recommendations 
• Strong analytical skills and Inquisitive self-starter
• Proficient storyteller, able to see through large and varied information sources and convey clear, compelling messages

The employing subsidiaries of Schwan's Company are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, age, race, color, religion, gender, vet status, national origin or other protected class.

Job Type: Full-time Business Unit: Req #: 23-3954