Field Category Manager, Walmart Job at Ferrero, Bentonville, AR

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  • Ferrero
  • Bentonville, AR

Job Description

Job Location: ​Bentonville​

Company description

Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000  dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

About the Role:

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a leading global brand? Ferrero, the name behind iconic products like Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, and Tic Tac, is seeking a dynamic and passionate Field Category Manager for Walmart. As the Field Category Manager for Walmart, you'll develop objective, data driven, category insights that help deliver both sales and margin goals for all products within Walmart and Sam’s Club account(s).

This full-time position is hybrid and based in the vibrant city of Rogers, AR. As the Field Category Manager, Walmart, you'll report directly to the Director of Walmart Field Category Management. Join us and help shape the future of our beloved brands in the U.S. marketplace!

Main Responsibilities:

  • Maintain and communicate Ferrero’s strategy on how to grow the assigned categories, focusing on Distribution, Merchandising, Shelving, and Pricing (DSMP) fundamentals
  • Translate Category Management annual & long-term priorities to actionable initiatives
  • Participate in joint business planning development and line review sessions to enhance category growth within the Confections, Spreads and Cookie Categories
  • Work collaboratively to develop innovative and insightful content to drive category growth
  • Leverage all syndicated data resources, shopper insights platforms and research in support of the sales initiatives that ensure linkage with the category management plan
  • Monitor and analyze category, competition, and consumer market data to proactively identify business opportunities and develop actionable category insights
  • Build relationships with customer teams to become or strengthen strategic and trusted partner status
  • Drive support for new product innovation launches through commercial planning process

Who we are looking for:

  • 7+ years relevant experience required, CPG Foods experience is preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree in a business/marketing discipline required; MBA a plus
  • Prior Category Management role required; Additional insights experience preferred 
  • Syndicated data required; IRI & Luminate experience preferred
  • Interpersonal skills to interface effectively with the necessary internal and external stakeholders, building solid relationships and customer influencing skills
  • Strategic and proactive thinking to develop category strategies and translate them into distribution, shelving, pricing and merchandising objectives 
  • Solid MS Office skills, especially Excel & PowerPoint, and Storytelling capabilities to translate data & insights into selling narratives 
  • Management presentation competencies to effectively present key category insights to senior leadership
  • Global mindset; desire to build a successful career with a growing global company
  • Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
  • 25% Travel required for customer meetings and industry events

How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:

Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world. 

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Diversity Statement

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.

Ferrero U.S.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

Requisition ID

64827

Job function

Trade & Shopper Marketing

Country

United States of America

City

Bentonville

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