Category Manager Jobs

GENERAL PURPOSE:

Schwan's is hiring a Category Manager, to be based in Bloomington, MN that supports Albertson’s at a National level. In this customer-facing role, you will function as an expert in the frozen pizza, frozen desserts, frozen Asian, and Shelf Stable Asian category. 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%)
• Influence retailers and internal partners around optimal assortment (rationality, space-to-sales, retailer differentiation strategy, shopper affinity, etc.)
• Provide business situation assessment that is leveraged in joint business plan development with key stakeholders
• Cultivate multiple internal and external relationships across the retailer and within the Schwan’s organization
• Present consumer, shopper and category insights in a comfortable, positive, influential manner
• Track and deliver weekly/monthly retailer category performance scorecards
• 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
• Ensure retailer’s category strategies are appropriately communicated internally (Upstream/downstream)

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent; MBA preferred

Years of Related Experience: 3+ years’ experience in related fields for Category Managers (CPG Preferred)

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Space planning and planogram software (either JDA or Apollo)
• Strong presentation skills to retail buyers
• Experience with retailer POS data necessary; shopper/loyalty card data desired
• Excellent with Excel and PowerPoint
• 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
• Experienced with volume decomposition methodology

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.