Senior Category Manager

Mondelēz International

Senior Category Manager driving category strategy and insights for Hu & Enjoy Life portfolios at Mondelēz International. Overseeing growth initiatives and category performance analysis in this key sales role.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $122,000 - $167,750 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Category Strategy & Development: Identify headroom for growth, setting strategic targets on category share & channel distribution across the Hu & Enjoy Life portfolios.
Define category & competitive landscape informing brand x category.
roadmap for both annual planning and multi-year planning.
Assess consumption performance v. in-year & longer-term roadmaps.
Identify future fit categories in partnership with innovation team.
Support channel & customer development (CCD) team in delivering category toolkits & influencing MAPs strategy.
Category Insights & Research: Set category learning objectives & required budgets in concert with Category Insights Manager (CIM), Insights & Analytics partners (I&A), and Brand team.
Deliver regular category reporting to North America & North American Ventures businesses to illustrate brand priorities & latest learnings.
Utilize & prioritize suite of tools developed by CIM to identify gaps & opportunities for strengthening category x brand insights.
Category Team Leader: Ensure category team delivers on proper tracking to key metrics with robust reporting on category trends, competitive brand performance, consumer trends, customer performance.
Support CIM in refreshing & expanding master selling story in support of category reviews.
Unlock cross-team communication to ensure alignment of objectives, research, and budgets across broader sales x brand x I&A teams.
Oversee team priorities & goal setting, support day-to-day management of category team, foster growth & development within category team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Dynamic, hands-on leader with demonstrated success as both a top-performing CPG salesperson and as a leader on winning teams.
Deep understanding of Nielsen & Spins with the ability to develop a category story and key KPIs to outperform category growth.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing category insights and long-term strategy growth.
Self-starter with the ability to take insights from data and put them to action in conjunction with RGM team.
Extensive experience developing and executing highly impactful selling strategies.
Adept at fostering strong partnerships with sales, marketing and RGM to develop a cohesive strategy that meets all company objectives.
Fluent in Microsoft Office and excel.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance
wellness and family support programs
life and disability insurance
retirement savings plans
paid leave programs
education related programs
paid holidays and vacation time

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Hard Skills & Tools

category strategycategory insightscompetitive analysisdata analysisKPI developmentcategory reportingselling strategieslong-term strategy growthconsumer trendsperformance tracking

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingself-starterpartnership buildingteam managementgoal settingfostering growthdynamic leadership