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At Schwan’s Company, food is our passion. We are one of the U.S.’s leading food companies, making and marketing products for retail grocery and food service under brands consumers love: Red Baron®, Tony’s®, Big Daddy’s®, Villa Prima™ and Freschetta® pizza; Minh® Eggrolls, Pagoda® Asian-style snacks, and Bibigo Dumplings; Mrs. Smith’s® and Edwards® desserts. We are an affiliate of the global lifestyle company CJ CheilJedang, one of the world’s leading innovators with a portfolio of businesses that extend into food, entertainment, logistics, biotech, and nutrition sciences.

We are hiring a Senior Category Manager who will be leading and driving strategic initiatives that will transform the category's performance. You will work closely with cross-functional teams and external partners to develop and execute high-level strategies, implement innovative solutions, and maximize sales and profitability. This is an exciting role that will leverage your Category Management expertise, business acumen, and strategic leadership to deliver insights and category growth solutions to one of our largest retail partners . This role will be based in our Cincinnati OH office

Working at Schwan’s means the opportunity to have real impact. We look to you to contribute to our strategy, build relationships, execute business priorities, and take pride in your work because at Schwan’s, you lead the way, and we value what you bring. Come join us!

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Presents expert, non-biased consumer, shopper and category insights with objectivity and the highest level of integrity. Responsible for developing category centric strategies with actionable recommendations leading to category growth.

• Proactively identifies business opportunities and proposes both strategic and tactical solutions. Utilizes fact-based data measures to develop solutions focused on category management basics: market shares, opportunity gaps, volumetric trends, trade promotion factors, pricing, and distribution.

• Prepares assortment optimization analysis, merchandising effectiveness & efficiency measures. Analyzes and proposes shelf position changes to maximize schematic key metrics.

• Leverage syndicated data to provide key industry and department/category insights and conduct market specific assessments of competitors, vendors, and customers to support decisions and influence management.

• Lead and manage diverse complex projects including improving capabilities and efficiency of workstreams, provide insightful perspective and thought leadership to key customer stakeholders, work with solution and data providers to improve capabilities and execution of deliverables.

• Provide performance insights, actionable reporting and analysis of Retailer and the overall marketplace, both tracked and untracked, to influence decisions and strategies to grow the category.

• Must be a self-starter who can proactively anticipate the business needs of the Buying Team and provide recommendations to grow sales and has strong problem-solving skills.

• Directs, trains, and develops subordinates, if applicable.

  QUALIFICATIONS:

  A minimum of least 8 + years’ experience in a category management role

  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  Bachelors Degree and 8+ years category management experience in the Food industry would be ideal

  Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong knowledge of category management tools and software including Circana (IRi), JDA Space Planning, Numerator, and Space Automation tools.

• Maintain standardized reporting via Retailer applications, Circana (IRi) and Numerator to understand business drivers.

• Ability to create reports in Excel from multiple data sources and synthesize the insights into fact-based recommendations via PowerPoint presentations

• Experience and working knowledge of secondary research, market research methodologies and processes. Additionally, understand and seek to document causal influences & social trends.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

  The employing subsidiaries of Schwan's Company are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, age, race, color, religion, gender, vet status, national origin or other protected class.