Manager, Category
Who We Are
We’re Chomps, the fastest-growing food brand in the U.S. and we’re reimagining snacking. Our meat snacks are made using high-quality proteins, no sugar, and real ingredients – because we believe snacking should be simple, delicious, and convenient. Chomps can be found in over 20,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, real food that doesn’t compromise on taste.
Traits of a Chompian
If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.
Accepting applications from 1/24 - 1/31
What You Will Do
We are looking for a highly collaborative, results-oriented person to join the team as Manager, Category Management. Your primary responsibility will be to provide category management and insight support across the entire Chomps portfolio of products within assigned key accounts and sales channels. In this role, you will collaborate with sales, operations, and marketing teams to execute growth strategies across our customers aligned to category growth goals and total company objectives. You will be a game changer by aligning with sales and retailer partners to generate win-win opportunities between Chomps and assigned retail partners. The Category Manager is passionate about analytics and using insights to elevate customer partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Develop category expertise, identify, and articulate business insights and fact-based opportunities (storytelling) for assigned key accounts/channels by leveraging a variety of retailer, vendor, market/consumption, and shopper data sources (Numerator, retailer specific).
- Your analytic insights, recommendations and solutions will build best-in-class capabilities and develop deep functional expertise to drive incremental growth
- Utilize various information sources to address a variety of routine and ad-hoc analytical projects, including (but not limited to) regularly published retailer and/or category scorecards, performance reports/updates with assessment of brand, category, and competitive opportunities/issues.
- Act as the front-line owner of data, responsible for organizing, scrubbing, analyzing, and finalizing large sets of raw data
- Act as the expert in utilizing customer-specific shopper and data platforms to best leverage information to influence decision making, both internal and external
- Partner with marketing and sales teams by providing analytics, reporting, and data-driven content addressing customer and category questions and opportunities.
- Develop strong fact-based selling stories for innovation launches, close distribution gaps and expanding distribution to support company, consumer, and customer strategy
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, to create category-focused analysis & compelling insights to drive Chomps strategic priorities
- Provide competitive intelligence and analyses (total category, channel, customer level) to proactively protect or grow our business
- Contribute to the measurement of test-and-learn initiatives and continuous improvement of shelving and merchandising recommendations
- Create a competitive advantage with a data driven approach to in-store shelving, retail inventory and broker/third-party management.
- Accepts responsibility for the organizational goals by taking ownership of new and different duties and identifying new opportunities within the Sales and Business Intelligence departments
Who You Are
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 3+ years of experience in category management, marketing and/or account management
- Prior industry experience in food, CPG, and/or grocery/natural is preferred
- Advanced user level in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI
- Working knowledge of secondary and syndicated data sources (Nielsen, Spins, IRI, Numerator, 84.51, etc.), loyalty card and shopper panel metrics
- Outstanding analytical skills with demonstrated success translating data into actionable insights and visual selling content
- Outstanding communication (both verbal and written) and relationship management skills
- Ability to prioritize a high volume of requests and projects
Position: Manager, Category
Reports to: Senior Manager, Category Management
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time, exempt
Salary Range Opportunity:
- The salary range for this role is $110,000 - $115,000 + 20% annual bonus
Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:
- Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company
- In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.
Other Perks:
- Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry.
- Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
- Unlimited PTO and 11+ paid holiday days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave.
- Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
- Company-wide Continual Education budget.
- An abundance of snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).
Our Commitment
Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business.
We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps.
Important Notice:
It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information.If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at careers@chomps.com
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With so much conflicting information surrounding food, we realized that people want to make healthy choices, but aren’t sure what is truly good for them. We decided to eliminate the guessing game and create simple snacks that were made with the hi...
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