Category Manager - Kroger (Cincinnati, OH)

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Springdale, AR
Mid level
Food • Manufacturing
The Role
The Category Manager will support Category Leadership by providing analytics and developing recommendations for growth using Kroger’s customer data. Responsibilities include analyzing market trends, driving assortment optimization, and creating business plans and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
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SUMMARY:

This position, located in Cincinnati, OH, will report to the Senior Customer Category Manager, Kroger and support Category Leadership efforts by providing ad-hoc category and shopper analytics and developing actionable recommendations to drive category/brand growth. These insights will create and deliver solutions that satisfy both Tyson and Kroger strategies and objectives. It involves a high level of interaction with both Tyson and Kroger management.

Utilizes internal and external research and leverages Kroger customer data to create actionable and relevant insights that can be applied to Kroger’s strategic and tactical plans.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

  • Collaborates with retailer on insights utilizing market, competitive and Kroger trends (syndicated and 84.51).
  • Leverages key shopper and industry trends.
  • Analyzes category, competitive and market trends (syndicated data).
  • Develops and drives assortment and space optimization at the retailer.
  • Provides on-going post promotional analysis for retailer.
  • Develops Category Business Plans with internal sales team.
  • Develops customer Category Reviews and New Item presentations with the support of various team members.
  • Develops insight-based recommendations based on analysis of space management (e.g., assortment), sales, distribution, pricing, and promotion.
  • Provides ongoing reporting to both retailer and sales teams.

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's Degree required.

Minimum 3-5 years in category management/shopper insights or similar function in Consumer-Packaged Goods (preferred). Food industry/Kroger experience a plus.

Advanced computer skills in PowerPoint and Excel.

Strong experience in syndicated data systems (Nielsen/IRI)

Experience with Kroger specific data (84.51, Market 6, IRI) is a plus.

Must be comfortable presenting to Sr. Mgmt. and voicing opinion to team.

Excellent planning and project management skills

Strong ability to leverage creative thinking and presentation skills.

Travel: Minimal, estimated 10 – 25%

Location: Cincinnati, OH preferred

Relocation Assistance Eligible:

Yes





Work Shift:



1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

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Top Skills

Excel
PowerPoint
The Company
HQ: Springdale, AR
24,043 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1935

What We Do

World's largest processor and marketer of protein food products.

We think differently and we act boldly. At Tyson Foods, we're not only ready for tomorrow, we’re leading the way.

We are a company of people engaged in the production of food, seeking to pursue truth and integrity, and committed to creating value for our shareholders, our customers, our team members, and our communities.

We built our name on providing generations of families with wholesome, great-tasting chicken. But today’s Tyson Foods is so much more. As values and behaviors around food have changed, so have we. Today, we’re innovators uniquely positioned to reshape what it means to feed our world. Today, we not only have the fastest growing portfolio of protein-centric brands, we offer greater transparency into everything we do.

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