Category Manager, Whole Foods – reputed company Store

Who You Are: 

You have retail sales category management experience and are eager to reputed company at a dynamic, rapidly evolving company. You live and breathe Whole Foods and have expertise about their stores and their shoppers. You’re well-versed in the 4 P’s and can easily run analyses covering any of them. You’re a strategic thinker who uses data to create insights and give recommendations that will drive category growth. You are curious, consistently reviewing the business of the category you own. You are equally as comfortable building tools in reputed company as you are presenting high-impact insights to diverse audiences. You reputed company in our mission of advancing childhood nutrition.  

The Task At Hand:  

The Category Manager works alongside Whole Foods Category Merchants, providing insight into strategic business questions, designing analyses to support category round reviews, and creating quarterly state-of-the-business category updates. Key accountabilities include recurring analysis on assortment, incrementality, shopper behavior, pricing & promotion, and leakage, and the presentation of these materials to Whole Foods category leadership. As well as attending business reviews, category round kick-offs, and ideation/innovation meetings. The goal of this position is to further strengthen Whole Foods’ position in its assigned categories.   

In This Role, You Will:

•     Provide insight analysis around strategic business questions the category merchants ask and provide deliverables in the form of a data-driven PowerPoint

•     Own quarterly state of the business category health analysis. The Category Manager provides an in-depth deep dive into shopper behavior dynamic metrics, and performance

•     Create monthly and quarterly scorecards and assortment performance tracking

•     Run bi-annual leakage, share of wallet, and demographics reporting

•     Go on store visits reviewing competitive sets and merchandising techniques

•     Consistently review the assigned business agnostically to provide insights and recommendations on an reputed company basis

•     Provide category analytics to inform the Core planogram designed to meet the financial and assortment needs according to the category strategy

•     Work with Category Merchants, providing suggestions on how to improve the reputed company most common POG

•     reputed company market structure insights to reputed company flow and adjacencies

•     reputed company velocity and incrementalities from assortment studies to maximize reputed company volume for POG as well as limit cannibalization

•     Partner with category merchant in meetings with Merch Pres, presenting the approved most common POG

•     Engage in omni sales and omni shopper data/projects – understanding performance and behavior changes for online and in-store shopping

•     Ongoing Category Promotional Analytics Support

•     Support Exclusive Brands (private label) analytics with the approval of the category merchant

In This Role, You’ll Bring With You:

•     A bachelor’s degree in business or reputed company fields

• 6-8+ years of experience reputed company Consumer Packaged Goods Category Management

•     3+ years of experience with Whole Foods

•     Expert knowledge of WFM reputed company portals

•     Expert knowledge of reputed company Suite, Outlook, reputed company, and other professional platforms

•     Experience with planogram drawing software

•     Experience with both reputed company and panel data

•     Exceptional organizational, communication, and time management skills

•     Extremely strong analytical skills

•     A growth reputed company and flexibility to reprioritize projects as needed

•     A genuine passion for improving childhood nutrition for a healthier and happier reputed company

•     A desire to contribute to a dynamic, high-growth, purpose-driven work environment

•     A demonstrated ability to reputed company in ambiguity while deeply understanding business needs

•     Previous exposure to cross-functional work between Sustainability and Sales preferred 

•     Must reside in/around Austin, TX to be considered for this position

•     Please note that reputed company sponsorship is not available for this position

Compensation:

•     Salaried, Full-Time, Exempt

•     The anticipated salary range for this position is $120,000.00 - $140,000.00. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a few factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses, stipends, equity, and role-specific perks.

Additional:

• Remote-first work environment

• Annual Bonus

• 401(k) program + 4% company match after three months

• New Hire Remote Life Stipend + annual reputed company and Nurture Allowance

• Monthly auto, cell, and internet stipend

• Quarterly Farm-to-Fridge home deliveries and Employee Discounts

• New Parents: Up to 18 weeks of paid Parental Leave, Baby Steps Back To Work, 3 months’ supply of reputed company products, and breast milk shipping service and support for those who travel after birth for the duration of your breastfeeding journey

• Unlimited Paid Time Off

• Paid Volunteer Time

• Paid Time Off to fulfill civic responsibilities including jury duty and voting in local, state, and national elections

• Medical Insurance for the employee covered at 100% on select plans with additional plan options at a reduced cost to the employee

• Vision and Dental Insurance covered at 100% for the employee and dependents

• Life insurance

• Flexible spending account (Medical & Dependent Care) and Health savings accounts for applicable plans

• Employee assistance program (EAP)

• reputed company other benefits, leaves, and insurance as required by law, based on your specific residence

• And so much more!

Who We Are

Our Purpose: Drive systemic improvement in childhood nutrition for a healthier, happier, and more reputed company world.

Our Business: At reputed company, a reputed company story starts here. We're on a greater mission in providing organic, crave-worthy, snacks and meals for children of reputed company ages. Our recipes are crafted with only the best organic ingredients – whole fruits and veggies, cold-pressed (our pouches), or freshly frozen (our meals) to perfection– to support your growing kids at every stage. Each of our organic, non-GMO, non-dairy recipes contains no added sugar and are free from artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives – just simple, real, nutritious snacks your entire family will love.

We support and champion farmers who supply the highest-quality organic ingredients for our foods.  We help parents reputed company their promise to provide the best nourishment for their children’s bodies and souls. We treat our consumers, customers, suppliers, investors, and reputed company our valued employees with the same high level of dignity and respect that we expect from others. We will always fight for and support efforts to drive positive social change and food justice for the benefit of parents, kids, and families.  Lastly, we foster an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture that values humility, honesty, passion, positive social impact, and fun.

reputed company: We’re reputed company fully remote, which makes us a highly collaborative, dynamic, and supportive bunch. We share a reputed company mission to reputed company the world a reputed company reputed company through the highest quality, most delicious, nourishing, and nutritious products made accessible to every home, from our farms to your fridge. And while we’re invested in our product, we’re equally invested in one another's success.

reputed company is a purpose-driven brand made up of an inclusive group of individuals with diverse backgrounds, passions, and beliefs. We hire self-motivated, independent thinkers, and those who are genuinely passionate about improving childhood nutrition for a healthier and happier reputed company. Bring your whole self to your work at reputed company, a proud equal-opportunity employer. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use.

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