Job Description

As an Associate Manager on our Category Leadership team, you will help lead category growth platform development by providing category programs and plans to field sales. You will report to a Director of Category Leadership.

Position Responsibilities:

* Assist manager to provide category analysis and business impacts to the sales team, identifying opportunities to enhance customer/category goals and those of the company
* Customize existing corporate category initiatives and plans to propel company and category sales at the customer
* Help deliver category insights to develop collaborative solutions
* Assist team to exceed established shelving and merchandising goals
* Provide category insights to the account in our priority categories, striving to, or confirming the position of lead vendor within the category review process
* Work with internal partners and retailer contacts to develop and help implement category growth plans
* Direct broker partners to develop planograms to support shelving standards across priority categories
* Educate sales team on new item programs and category rationale for development; develop proposals for distribution and shelving changes to the account
* Ensure category plans are delivered

Position Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree
* 3+ years of consumer packaged goods (CPG) related experience in sales or analytical roles
* Data integration and interpretation experience
* Experience summarizing a holistic sales story from multiple sources of data, such as syndicated, loyalty, consumer and industry trends
* Understand the fundamentals of syndicated panel data
* Experience working directly with customers in growing category sales
* Have solid knowledge of computers, MS Office Suite, Nielsen/IRI, space management tools
* Customer loyalty card knowledge
* Experience in Excel to develop and maintain complex spreadsheets and automate processes
* Working knowledge of retail merchandising and in-store execution tactics

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Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

* Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance
* Wealth: great salaries, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
* Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences
* Balance: paid-time off , flexible work-schedules

Our Company:

Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team thats passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye, Marie Callender's, Banquet, Healthy Choice, Slim Jim, Reddi-wip, and Vlasic, and emerging brands, including Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP, Duke's, Earth Balance, Gardein, and Frontera.

We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law.