McCormick & Company

Category Manager II

McCormick & Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

React

About the role

  • Support the development of account strategy, particularly in areas of assortment, pricing, shelving
  • Work with regional grocery customers on Geography team
  • Understand industry, consumer and category trends and translate those insights into actionable strategic business recommendations
  • Provide proactive analysis and shopper insight driven recommendations and lead presentations related to category business reviews, assortment & space optimization, promotion & pricing effectiveness, and trade efficiency
  • Leverage analytic tools to identify customer opportunities
  • Develop collaborative partnerships with key strategic customers to position McCormick as category leader
  • Manage and develop analysts on the team

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Sales, Marketing or other related field
  • 6+ years of experience in Sales, Finance, Marketing or Business Management
  • 4+ years of experience customer/sales experience, including 2+ years in Category Management
  • Strong knowledge of syndicated POS and panel data (IRI, Nielsen, etc.)
  • Familiarity with pricing, promotion and assortment optimization software and experience working with customer-specific data systems (84.51, Symphony RetailAI, dunnhumby, etc.)
  • Strong analytic skills and demonstrated ability to translate insights into actionable business recommendations that deliver positive results
  • Excellent verbal and written presentation skills, with the ability to analyze and understand the data and then effectively communicate those insights to both internal and external audiences
  • Ability to react quickly and complete tasks in a timely manner to meet deadlines
  • Ability to work in cross-functional teams, self-motivated and team oriented
  • Understanding of Field Sales and Retailer process in business analytics as well as distribution obstacles is a benefit
  • Creative problem solving in the dynamic environment as it relates to retail execution