Category Manager jobs in Rockford, IL

Company and Position Information:

Del Monte Foods, Inc. (DMFI) is a multi-national food company headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, with a powerful portfolio of brands, including iconic Del Monte, Contadina and College Inn. Our premium-quality meal ingredients, snacks and beverages can be found in six out of ten U.S. households.

At Del Monte Foods, we believe in supporting one another. In helping our people shape their own careers - in letting them grow outward, upward and across disciplines. We are tending to the greater good, providing accessible, nourishing, great-tasting food for all. We are Del Monte Foods - Growers of Good.

The salary range for this role is:

Responsibilities:

The Manager, Category Insights is responsible for leading customer-specific category management deliverables, with specific emphasis on actionable category and shopper insights that drive the business for our customers and Del Monte.

The position is the go-to category management expert for the assigned Zone sales team, including in-depth category, consumer, and shopper expertise.Key responsibilities include business analytics, supporting selling efforts, creating category reviews designed to grow our customers' categories, providing business insights to the assigned Zone sales team, among others.

He/She provides insights on customer and Zone business performance, collaborating with key stakeholder on drivers of business performance.This leader ensures key consumer, industry, and category trends are shared internally and externally.

This individual has very strong technical, analytic, storytelling and data visualization skills.He/She is able towork effectively with customers to sell ideas, share insights, and partner closely with retailer customers.This person is highly adept at traditional category management principles including space and shelf management, merchandising, pricing and assortment analyses.This manager supports DMFI's capabilities in building, maintaining, and drawing insights from syndicated and retailer POS and shopper card data with speed, agility, and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Collaborates with assigned Zone leader and sales managers to identify and address business development opportunities including new items launches and Del Monte business building initiatives
• Develops and delivers category reviews to customers, identifying current state of the business, identifying opportunities, and making recommendations to grow the customer's category and Del Monte brand sales
• Leverages all available data and tools to connect and support the relevance of our retail recommendations
• Establishes broader relationships within/across assigned customer(s) and nurtures those relationships to influence retailer execution and Del Monte gains
• Actively partners with broader Category Insights team, Marketing, Customer Marketing and Field Sales to share learning agenda topics and subsequent research interpretation and activation
• Collaborates cross-functionally and shares findings and analyses
• Consultatively provides category expertise by maintaining up-to-date fluency with category, shopper and retail trends and best practices
• Proactively identifies insights from consumer and/or shopper behavior and translates their implications into retailer action that grows sales; broadly shares with others
• Acts as the category insights expert and key point of contact for the Zone team members; Educates others, both internally and externally, about key business enablers including research, tools, case studies and subject matter experts
• Actively engaged in educating others (up, down, across and outside organization) by sharing best practices and insights so that our successes are broadly repeated
• Acts as a partner to Zone Sales Leaders; is a significant and regular contributor on staff calls with the intent of educating business development managers and cross functional partners in category and brand insights, best-in-class practices based on analyses, and business performance and drivers
• Other duties as assigned.

Del Monte Foods Leadership Behaviors:

As leaders we:

Ground Our Teams

• Connect our teams to a clear strategy.

• Provide the support our teams need for success.

• Hold ourselves and our teams accountable.

Create the Climate

• Solve problems together with our teams.

• Enable smart risk taking.

• Empower our teams to make decisions and take action.

Nurture the Good

• Are intentional about building trust.

• Lead with empathy.

• Grow and develop our teams.

Qualifications:

• College Degree preferred
• 4 years of industry or relevant experience
• Strong computer proficiency in Retailer POS, Syndicated and Panel data, Microsoft Excel, Circana and/or Nielsen, and proficiency in Power Point as well as other Microsoft Office applications
• Experience in utilizing shopper card data systems such as EYC, Stratum, IRI Gateway, Dunnhumby, and others
• Strong analytical, interpretive, and problem-solving skills
• Strong data visualization and storytelling capabilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent attitude with a strong team-orientation
• Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to learn quickly

WE OFFER:

• Competitive salary.

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k).

Please be advised that your application is not complete until you fill out, sign, and submit an Application for Employment for a specific position for which Del Monte Foods, Inc. is actively recruiting. Your application must reflect that you possess the required qualifications for the position.

No sponsorship is available for this position.

No agencies or 3rd party vendors.