Customer Category Manager, Albertsons/Safeway- Scottsdale, AZ Job Opening

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Work Shift:

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.

• 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

• Applies Albertsons/Safeway internal EYC analysis to create category and brand growth recommendations

• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree required. Master's Degree preferred.
• Minimum 4-6 years in category management/shopper insights in Consumer Packaged Goods, preferably with both field and HQ experience. Food industry experience a plus.
• Demonstrated success in leading category management customer engagements with major Food, Drug or Mass retailers
• Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams to drive business results
• Superior analytic experience - knowledge of developing category leadership platforms with shopper and consumer insights, syndicated sources, and primary and secondary research
• Advanced-level Nielsen/IRI syndicated data usage and understanding
• Experience with retailer specific data (i.e. EYC, 84.51) is a plus
• Must be comfortable presenting to Sr. Mgmt. and voicing opinion to team

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