Category Manager - Austin, United States - Monster Energy

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    Position Summary:

    Lead in the analysis and interpretation of category information in order to identify opportunities and enhance category performance, incorporating both the retailer's goals and MEC business objectives. Develop business intelligence systems, data warehouse of information, and process architecture to ensure accurate and timely business intelligence deliverables.
    Collaborate closely with Sales Management to develop a coherent array of tools, reports, dashboards to uncover new trends, gaps and opportunities ultimately leading to more timely and effective business decisions.

    Essential Job Functions:
    • Expand the use of data as a strategic enabler of corporate sales goals and objectives.
    • Responsible for creating validation process/reporting to ensure accuracy of current reporting.
    • Evaluate and analyze existing databases and develop/maintain integrations to data warehouse.
    • Formulate and provide status updates on project plans and schedules to meet goals/objectives
    • Create and enforce corporate standards for data warehouse design and data integrity
    • Ensure data architecture supports existing and future requirements of evolving business model
    • Automate and consolidate performance metrics across regions and segments
    • Work with power users of the reporting tool to expand best practices for the tools
    • Responsible for leading the application of category management principles to identify customer/consumer insights to strategically position our client and our retail partners for success
    • Lead the development of preparing category management plans and presentations for key customers using multiple data sources, and present findings to appropriate teams/customers in support of business plans
    • Proactively help to manage the sales planning process to identify trends and review key indicators; track opportunity gaps and highlight causal factors
    • Utilize POS tools, shipment data, syndicated data and standard reference material in assisting in the preparation of customer presentations, promotional evaluations and special project work
    • Assist in driving category development principles with key customers to differentiate our client from competition to attain increased distribution, space and display resulting in increased sales and profit
    • Analyze and interpret information in order to identify opportunities and enhance category performance, incorporating both the retailer's goals and MEC business objectives.
    Position Requirements:
    • The ideal candidate will have exceptional analytical skills and be adept at deriving, distilling an articulating actionable business insights from large amounts of data
    • Undergraduate degree BS, BA
    • Minimum of 5-10 years of Category Management
    • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Business suite, Nielsen Nitro
    • Strong communication and presentation skills
    • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing to a widely diverse audience to ensure information is clearly presented
    Key Success Factors
    • The ability to take projects from concept to release
    • The ability to develop trusting business partnerships across cross-functional team
    Pay Range : $ 97,800 - $115,000

    Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

    The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR c)