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Category Development Manager

Red Bull North America
United States, Illinois, Chicago
180 North Upper Wacker Drive (Show on map)
Feb 06, 2025
The Category Manager directly supports the Sr Director Category Development in building consumer and customer focused strategies, tactics, and category grounded solutions. This individual will conduct high quality analysis and synthesize multiple data sources to generate insights and actionable recommendations, while leveraging effective communication & influencing skills to orchestrate action across On Premise customers. The candidate must possess sound business judgment, excellent communication skills and demonstrate experience in the following areas: assortment planning, negotiation, pricing strategy, online product presentation, sales, and building productive relationships. EXPERIENCE Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role: 3+ years of experience in consumer goods, retail, or syndicated data with a focus on category management, sales, business analytics, or shopper insights. 2+ years of Food Service / On Premise category experience preferred Experience understanding, using, and employing syndicated data, customer card/POS data, and panel data to guide internal and external wins through sales and share growth (experience with data sources such as Nielsen, IRI, NPD, Numerator, 84.51, dunnhumby, SPINS, Stratum, Spectra/demographics, SPSOneScreen, Symphony Retail AI/EYC) Additional analytical experience and competencies (i.e. Tableau, Microsoft Access, PowerBI, ProSpace, SQL, VBA, Alteryx) Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Management, Accounting, Data Analytics, or related field preferred or equivalent experience in lieu of degree Must be fluent in English, additional languages an advantage Travel 20-30% Permanent Benefits eligible