Assistant Manager – Category Management, Amazon, Away From Home

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Extract and analyze data from platforms like Technomic, Data Essential, Circana, and Nielsen to assist the Away from Home and Amazon team initiatives.

• Create consumer selling narratives based on the consumer segmentation framework as its data foundation.

• Produce actionable insights that drive behavior changes and pinpoint effective engagement strategies.

• Assist in the preparation of monthly insights reports and presentations.

• Perform competitive analysis for AFH and conduct concept testing, providing reports on results and recommendations.

• Oversee custom data requests for National and Regional Account Managers (NAM/RAM).

• Keep track of industry trends and competitive movements, sharing insights with account teams.

• Assemble a comprehensive level of social intelligence to reveal rich cultural trends, snacking occasions, and brand opportunities.

• Continuously enhance business through data, monitoring, and learning.

• Collaborate with category management to maximize all data sources across Growth Channels and develop performance dashboards.

• Aid in creating customer-facing presentations for both commercial and non-commercial national, regional, and key accounts.

• Contribute to the development of internal presentations for leadership and brand equity teams.

• Educate and influence customers and internal teams on strategies to enhance category growth through Digital.

• Provide top-tier recommendations to foster sustainable category growth.

• Deliver action-driven insights on innovation, communication, and brand growth priorities to shopper, customer, and net revenue planning teams.

• Identify and capitalize on growth opportunities within the retail environment relevant to the geographic area of responsibility.

• Create exemplary POGs across various AFH verticals.

• Cultivate strong relationships across marketing, sales, growth channels, category management, and agency partners.

• Proactively convey project timelines, presentation schedules, and strategic updates to leadership.

• Demonstrated experience in presenting to retailer teams and in negotiation planning/joint business planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Analytics, or a related field.

• 5 to 10 years of experience in category management, insights, marketing strategy, or analytics (preferably in CPG/FMCG, Amazon, or Away from Home).

• Familiarity with syndicated data sources (e.g., Technomic, Circana, Nielsen, Data Essential).

• Proficiency in utilizing retailer/customer data, shopper insights, and analytics to formulate compelling retail customer plans.

• Strong analytical and storytelling capabilities, with a knack for transforming data into actionable insights.

• High proficiency in fundamental business tools (Excel/PowerPoint).

• Extensive experience in analyzing and visualizing large data sets.

• Previous experience in developing customer-facing presentations, with direct customer interaction experience being a plus.

• Experience in eCommerce/Omnichannel/Amazon is advantageous.

• Experience in the Away from Home sector is beneficial.

• JDA/POG building experience is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• Wellness and family support programs.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Retirement savings plans.

• Paid leave programs.

• Education-related programs.

• Paid holidays and vacation time.