Senior Manager Category Insights HQ

Company and Position Information:

Del Monte Foods, Inc. (DMFI) is a multi-national food company headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, with a powerful portfolio of brands, including iconic Del Monte, Contadina and College Inn. Our premium-quality meal ingredients, snacks and beverages can be found in six out of ten U.S. households.

At Del Monte Foods, we believe in supporting one another. In helping our people shape their own careers - in letting them grow outward, upward and across disciplines. We are tending to the greater good, providing accessible, nourishing, great-tasting food for all. We are Del Monte Foods - Growers of Good.

The salary range for this role is:

Responsibilities:

The Senior Manager Category Insights Headquarters is responsible for driving strategic initiatives through comprehensive category and product analysis for DMFI.

This person provides category management deliverables to the field Category Insights team, with an emphasis on actionable category and shopper insights that drive the business for our customers and Del Monte. The Senior Manager Category Insights HQ is DMFI's go-to category management expert, providing in-depth category, consumer, and shopper expertise to the commercial organization.

Key responsibilities include working with BU managers providing a retail customer lens to new and existing products and categories, creating selling stories for new and existing brands, leading DMFI's shelving and space management agenda, and providing category information and materials to educate and inform the commercial team on our category and brand performance.

This leader is an essential member of the commercial team in charting a path for commercializing DMFI's brands and the categories in which we operate. He/She is highly collaborative, works successfully with cross functional team members, is solution-oriented and decisive, acts with urgency, and is particularly strong in storytelling and data visualization. This leader also has proven strengths in strategic thinking, communication, project planning, and in leading others and gaining enrollment.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Category Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of market trends, consumer buying behavior, and competitive landscapes within DMFI's categories
• Insights Generation: Utilize data analytics to generate actionable insights to inform product development, marketing strategies, and overall business decisions
• Sales Support: Create stories that enable the successful selling of new and existing items across all retail channels
• Strategic Planning: Contribute to the development of long-term category strategies by providing data-driven recommendations and identifying growth opportunities. Lead all space and shelving strategies for DMFI categories
• Market intelligence: Inform and educate the commercial team on category and brand performance during key promotional windows and events to aid in DMFI's planning and selling efforts
• Shopper Insights: Identifies insights from consumer and/or shopper behavior and translates their implications into retailer action that grows sales
• Education: Actively engages in educating others (up, down, across and outside organization) by sharing best practices and insights so that our successes are broadly repeated
• Manages, coaches, and develops direct reports; responsible for challenging direct reports to provide support to sales and category insights partners customers to uncover growth opportunities and make recommendations to business issues
• Other duties as assigned

Del Monte Foods Leadership Behaviors:

As leaders we:

Ground Our Teams

• Connect our teams to a clear strategy.

• Provide the support our teams need for success.

• Hold ourselves and our teams accountable.

Create the Climate

• Solve problems together with our teams.

• Enable smart risk taking.

• Empower our teams to make decisions and take action.

Nurture the Good

• Are intentional about building trust.

• Lead with empathy.

• Grow and develop our teams.

Qualifications:

• College degree preferred
• 7+ years of industry or relevant experience
• Certification through the Category Management Association is a plus (CPSA, CPCM, CPSA)
• Advanced computer proficiency in Retailer POS, Syndicated and Panel data, Microsoft Excel, Circana and/or Nielsen IRI, and proficiency in Power Point as well as other Microsoft Office applications
• Experience in utilizing shopper card data systems such as EYC, Stratum, Dunnhumby, and others
• Excellent analytical, interpretive, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent data visualization and storytelling capabilities
• Working knowledge of space management software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as strong interpersonal skills
• Strong problem-solving orientation with the ability to act quickly, think creatively, and support key stakeholders
• Strong leader capable of building trust and capabilities in direct reports through fair and balanced feedback
• Creative thinker with ability to communicate and present ideas

WE OFFER:

• Competitive salary.

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k).

Please be advised that your application is not complete until you fill out, sign, and submit an Application for Employment for a specific position for which Del Monte Foods, Inc. is actively recruiting. Your application must reflect that you possess the required qualifications for the position.

No sponsorship is available for this position.

No agencies or 3rd party vendors.