Associate Category Manager, Club BPC

JOB PURPOSE:

As a BPC Club Associate Category Manager, you will deliver objective strategic thought leadership and insights to drive category solutions focused on accelerating the BPC Category growth for Club Customers. As a Category Advisor, you will partner at multiple levels within the Club Channel to develop, plan, and coordination “best in class” category strategies for BPC Categories.  This position is responsible for supporting and executing the development of Category Management foundations throughout the organization.  As Club continues to elevate as a Channel in the marketplace, this position will play a critical role in unlocking white space opportunities and driving growth.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE:

• Functional Expertise: Drive Best in Class Category Management principles while execution flawless deliverables.

• Turn Insights into Action: Provide Category expertise and recommendations, for assigned categories, while turning insights into actionable recommendations.

  • Think Consumer First: The speed consumers are now accustomed to shopping and the implication the shopping journey has on the Consumer…mode of fulfillment (on-line, delivery, dive-up)

  • Think Social First:  Understanding how the Shopper/Consumers is discovering new items and the role the digital shelf plays in the shopping experience.

  • Your actions demonstrate people first: Creating culture and people development are your passion areas. You thrive on developing & motivating people to perform at their best and welcome the responsibility to set the tone for those around you

  • You are a born leader: You will take ownership to deliver thought leadership and accelerated category growth strategy while taking pride in the detail of retail

  • You embrace change: Defining the future, solving problems with limited direction, and the thought of breaking down barriers excites you. You have strong intuition to anticipate opportunities and can elevating analyses beyond data translate into action.

  • You like strategy and love execution: You’ll integrate multiple sources of insight to define where to play and how to win over the short and long term.  You’re able to develop plans for execution and engagement with appropriate customer contact points, timing, & content based on industry research and Unilever knowledge

  • You know the value of relationships: You will penetrate multiple cross-functional teams and the customer to link business opportunities and proactively make both strategic and tactical recommendations.

  • You are a story teller: You will leverage insights to create actionable selling stories and category strategy.  You will leverage creative thought processes to tackle category issues and opportunities.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Experiences & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferred with 1-3 years’ experience in Category Management, Customer Management, Insights or Sales Strategy

• CPG Experience required, Club experience preferred

• Extensive knowledge of syndicated data sources (Circana, ACNielsen, Household Panel, Loyalty Card Data, Numerator)

• Deep understanding of Retailer Assortment Discipline/Assortment Precision & Modular execution processes

• Experience presenting analytics and recommendations to retail merchants

• Strong analytical interpretation, problem solving and influencing skills

• Expertise in linking analytics via traditional data sources with cutting edge capabilities and tools to develop insights into action

• Understanding of Consumer Insights and how to identify future opportunity spaces

• Excellent planning, analytical, communication skills required, Strong PowerPoint, Excel and presentation skills

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