Associate Category Manager

Job Details

Job Location

Dallas - Main Office - Dallas, TX

Description

The Associate Category Manager position will assist the Category Management team in the development of category and brand growth stories, category reviews, business reviews, assortment, and modular plans. The successful candidate will provide analysis and actionable recommendations leveraging robust market and consumer data assets. The Associate Category Manager will report to the Category Management Lead and also work with the Category Manager and Sales team members. Additionally, the candidate must have strong relationship building skills.

Principal Duties:

• Provide category, shopper and brand insight using syndicated point of sale (POS) and consumer panel data to optimize assortment, pricing, and promotion to increase Daisy Brand and category sales.

• Identify growth opportunities through robust analysis of markets, channels, retailers, and competitors.

• Assist with the development of fact-based sales presentations with win-win retailer & Daisy Brand sell stories.

• Create best-in-class planograms by optimizing assortment and shelf space that drive category growth.

• Ongoing business performance reporting and tracking.

• Building strong partnerships with cross functional team members.

• Providing sales presentation support for Daisy Brand’s Food Service department.

  Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required.

• 2 years’ analytical experience within the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry.

  Skills:

• Experience in analyzing and interpreting data and ability to tell a story with data.

• Knowledge of syndicated point of sale and consumer panel data (Circana, NIQ, etc.).

• A plus to have knowledge of space management software (Blue Yonder, etc.).

• Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking skills.

• Excellent verbal and written presentation skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively on a team as well as individually.

• Strong computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

Qualifications

For five generations spanning over a century, Daisy Brand has been a family-owned and operated company committed to providing the freshest, most wholesome dairy products. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with manufacturing facilities in Garland, Texas (1998), Casa Grande, Arizona (2008), and Wooster, Ohio (2015).

Daisy is the market leader in sour cream and cottage cheese, both billion-dollar categories. Daisy Sour Cream represents 1 out of every 2 sour cream purchases in the United States and is the largest sour cream brand in food service, military, and club. It is recognized by consumers for “A Dollop of Daisy”, a tagline that put this once small brand on the map. Daisy Cottage Cheese is America’s #1 cottage cheese brand and continues to bring new consumers into the category with its innovative single serve packaging and consistent high quality. Daisy recently expanded into a new category with the launch of two dip products and is in the process of expanding distribution.

Daisy's core values, Clean and Trust, resonate in all aspects of our business operations. In 2008, the Foundation for Financial Service Professionals awarded Daisy the prestigious American Business Ethics award.

While maintaining a strong culture of curious and innovative problem-solvers, Daisy Brand has more than doubled employment over the last 15 years and is continuing to grow. Currently, we are proud to employ over 650 full-time staff across more than 25 states throughout the United States.

At Daisy Brand, we value longevity and aim to foster a working environment where employees can envision a long-term career. Companywide, the average employee tenure stands at over seven years. Our corporate office and sales team each boast an average tenure exceeding eleven years, while our manufacturing facilities also demonstrate strong employee retention with tenures averaging over seven years.

Daisy Brand offers an industry leading benefits package that includes:

• A no-deductible, $0 premium option for employee-only health coverage.

• 401(k) with 50% company match on first 8% of earnings you contribute.

• Safe harbor and profit-sharing company contributions to 401(k).

• Company paid short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Company paid 2X annual salary life and AD&D insurance.

• 4 weeks annual paid time off.

• Extra time off for volunteering.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Fitness membership reimbursement.

• And more

  Daisy Brand is a nicotine-free company. Daisy Brand is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans and disabled encouraged to apply.