Director, Category Leadership - Nutrition

ptimize space and assortment. You will manage and improve an annual assortment optimization process side-by-side with the merchants to drive category growth.

What You'll Do for Us

Key Responsibilities:

• People Leadership: Develop a cross-functional team that supports the Sam's Club beverage business. At Coca-Cola, our people are the key. In this role, you will lead the insights, strategies, and technical capabilities for our Nutrition advisorship at Sam's Club.

• Technical Analysis and Reporting: Utilize PowerBI, Alteryx, and Excel to analyze complex data sets and create and maintain visuals for key stakeholders

• Data Management: Collect, clean, aggregate, combine,e and maintain data to ensure accuracy and reliability for analysis and reporting, including data sources like Nielsen, Circana, and Numerator

• Customer Engagement: Serve as the primary point of contact for Sam's Club & Walmart merchants, understanding their needs, both tactical and strategic, to deliver tailored and custom solutions and strategies

• Insights / Strategic: Develop fact-based insights to develop assortment strategies for merchants; combine insights from various sources to build a cohesive recommendation for the merchant's assortment

• Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams, including the space function, to support the merchant and help them build their strategy

• Continuous improvement: Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to continuously improve processes, reporting, datasets, and automation

• Assortment and Space management: Draw and maintain store-specific planograms, optimizing both assortment and space strategies.

What You'll Need

Qualifications:

Minimum Required:

• 5+ Years in the CPG Industry

• Senior-level experience within the consumer goods/beverages industry

• Strong knowledge of category management principles and analytic techniques

Preferred Level:

• 7+ Years in the CPG Industry

• Experience across multiple disciplines beyond category management (Shopper Insights, Revenue Growth Management, etc)

Education: Minimum Required Bachelor's Degree. Preferred: MBA or other graduate degree

SKILLS:

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Power BI, Alteryx, and Excel is essential. Experience with SQL, Madrid a plus

• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data and translate it into actionable insights

• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels

• Customer Focus: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with customers by understanding their needs

• Detail-Oriented: High attention to detail at both breadth and depth

• Category / Space: JDA/Blue Yonder; Cantactix (Mission Control) experience is all a plus

Successful candidates will possess:

• Integrity

• Insatiable curiosity

• Tenacious drive for process improvement

• Willingness to respectfully challenge conventional thinking

• Proactive engagement both internally and externally

What We Can Do for You

• Brand Reputation: We lead the beverage industry, with a portfolio featuring over 500 brands worldwide.

• Expansive & Diverse Customers: We work with a diversified group of customers that range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurants, and many more each day.

• Opportunity to work on a dynamic and unique business with a direct Bottler relationship while reporting into the Atlanta-based Commercial Leadership team. Allows for experience in the Canadian business while also building knowledge and connections with HQ teams.

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Skills:
**Leadership; Microsoft Office; Customer Relationships; Strategy Development; Planograms (POGs); Structured Query Language (SQL); Key Performance Indicators (KPI); Customer Engagement; Tableau (Software); Market Segmentation; Alteryx; Customer Insights; Customer Data