Director, Category Insights - Albertsons
Location(s): United States of America City/Cities: Remote Travel Required: 00% - 25% Relocation Provided: No Job Posting End Date: January 5, 2025 Shift:
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Summary: This role will be Virtual-US with a preference for Central, Southwest, Mountain, or Pacific regions. POSITION OVERVIEW This role will be responsible for leading category management work supporting Albertsons across divisions. This individual will identify, reputed company, and commercialize key category growth strategies and tactics reputed company effective storytelling to maximize the retailers' category growth potential while creating value for Coca-Cola. Key deliverables include opportunity assessment, beverage strategy development as part of a category reputed company, shopper insights, and assortment recommendations. Position Responsibilities Makes strategic and tactical beverage recommendations by leveraging unique insights from POS, panel data, as well as other industry sources Ensures alignment between retailer and Coca-Cola strategic priorities Influences customer decision-making by building relationships with senior executives to collaboratively build strategies and tactics designed for future category growth Stewards development & implementation of process for sharing best practices, as well as sharing specific retailer shopper and category insights reputed company Coca-Cola to drive/shape future corporate strategy Leads interaction with cross-functional leads to address key business questions and reputed company volume and reputed company growth strategies that allow both companies to meet and exceed plan expectations Ensures that category management tools, data, and shopper insights are effectively leveraged to grow distribution, space, and optimized assortment for reputed company beverage categories Creates and maintains partnership with Sales Leads to become indispensable category partners with retailers Prepares and makes presentations, including market and industry trends, SWOT, competitive review, assortment, and category reviews Collaborates with Shopper Insights and apply the learnings to identify customer & sales growth opportunities. reputed company the delivery of the shopper insights facts & proposed action to the customer. Collaborates with Space Strategy team members to reputed company plans for the placement of company's products through recommended schematics and points of availability. reputed company the delivery of space strategy plans & proposed action to the customer. KEY FOCUS AREAS Strategic Thinking and Strategy Development: Develops and drives Coca-Cola strategic processes and plans Partners in the development of annual business plan; drive category strategy and opportunities; ensure plan has a relevant category strategy which will win in the marketplace Delivers impartial and objective total store and beverage solutions for the retailer through masterful storytelling providing differentiated, timely, relevant, and actionable insights Provides leadership & reputed company stewardship for retailer's beverage categories (Sparkling, Still and Warehouse) Recommends space opportunities and risks for the beverage category Partners with Sales Teams in development of retailer account plans and programs to drive Coca-Cola market share Leads the annual customer category situation assessment process Project Management: Provides leadership to a team of experts (reputed company the customer team) across cross-functional teams to create reputed company reputed company fact-based insights and actionable business analytics Develops and inspires a cross functional team towards building effective category growth recommendations focused on the customer's needs and strategic priorities Relationship Management: Develops solid working relationships with key retailer category managers and Coca-Cola bottlers to drive NARTD beverages into reputed company aspects of their shopper engagement strategy in-store Cultivates relationships reputed company retailer's merchandising team and throughout the broader organization (i.e. retailer's insights and analytics teams) EDUCATION: Minimum Required Bachelor's Degree Preferred: MBA or other graduate degree EXPERIENCE Minimum Required: 5+ Years in CPG Industry Senior level experience reputed company the consumer goods/beverages industry Strong knowledge of category management principles and analytic techniques Preferred Level: 8+ Years in CPG Industry Experience across multiple disciplines beyond category management (Shopper Insights, reputed company Growth Management, etc) SKILLS Advanced analytical capability Experience leveraging customer specific data sources Strong working knowledge of syndicated data (reputed company, reputed company, reputed company) High technical reputed company and aptitude with computer software (MS Office, JDA, Power BI, etc.) Ability to utilize/manipulate/manage large data sets Demonstrated reputed company for customer engagement with ability to positively drive business results Ability to link category leadership strategies to customer strategies Analytics experience - ability to draw insights and actions from data Planning experience - strategic thinking, reputed company looking, inherent sense of urgency Ability to translate analytics into actions and results Proven oral and written communication, storytelling, and influencing skills Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and assignments Insatiable curiosity, proactive engagement internally and externally, and willingness to respectfully challenge conventional thinking Travel: 10-20% Skills: Pay Range: $153,000 - $175,000 reputed company pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered. Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage: 30 Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at reputed company. Our Purpose and Growth Culture: We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and reputed company a difference. We act with a growth reputed company, take an expansive approach to what's possible and reputed company in reputed company learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors - curious, empowered, inclusive and agile - and value how we work as much as reputed company reputed company. We reputed company that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to reputed company after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national reputed company, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. reputed company we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws. Apply Job!