Customer Category Manager - Northeast
Posted on: 1 Feb 2021
Springdale, AR
Job Description
Location: NY Metro market (NJ, Eastern PA, and southern NY)
This position reports to the Sr. CCM and supports Category Leadership efforts by providing ad-hoc category and shopper analytics and developing actionable recommendations to drive category/brand growth at our Direct Northeast accounts.
Utilizes Department & Category Leadership Platforms to create actionable and relevant insights that can be applied to retailer-specific category strategic and tactical plans, including:
* Shopper insights
* Shelving guidelines
* Macro space (customized syndicated data pulls and analysis)
Developing and building assortment builds for demand transfer projects:
* Building and analyzing cumulative sales and illustrating inefficiencies by SKU
* Building and analyzing ROM (rest of market) SKU ranking and opportunities
* Forecasting new item adds / innovation / cannibalization
Develops recommended core POGs incorporating optimal assortment and merchandising principles
Assists in developing insight-based recommendations of space management, sales, distribution, pricing and promotion
Leads TPD forecasting and performance scorecarding for accounts
REQUIREMENTS:
Education: BA degree in related field preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience: 5+ years of experience in Category Management, Sales, and/or Consumer Insights. Food industry experience a plus.
Computer Skills: Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Excel.
Communication Skills: Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills.
Special Skills: Experience analyzing data & providing actionable insights utilizing retailer data sources, as well as advanced-level syndicated data (IRI/Nielsen) usage; excellent planning and project management skills; strong ability to leverage creative thinking.
Travel: As needed. Estimated 20%, to include customer meetings, national category & sales meetings, etc.
Work Shift:
1ST SHIFT (United States of America)
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Tyson Foods
Springdale, AR
Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully-cooked meats; and raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products.
It also supplies poultry breeding stock; sells allied products, such as hides and meats; and manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats. The company offers its products primarily under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp, State Fair, Gallo Salame, and Golden Island brands.
It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and foodservice operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company has a collaboration with IdentiGEN Ltd. Tyson Foods, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.
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IndustryFood services/Restaurants
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No. of Employees121,000
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