Senior Category Insights Manager

Spectrum Brands' Home & Personal Care (HPC) Appliances business participates on a global basis in small electric appliances, shave/groom appliances and beauty appliances. Our well- known brands include George Foreman, Black+Decker, Farberware, Breadman, Juiceman, Russell Hobbs and Remington. Our products appeal to consumer trends for healthy eating, stay-at-home cooking, creating today's new hair style and much more. We distinguish our product offerings from the competition by employing forward thinking, innovative technologies matched with a strong understanding of consumer needs to bring to market high quality, superior products that delight the end user.

The Sr Category Manager serves as an analytic, category management and consumer insights expert using the category management process as a decision platform for all initiatives designed to drive new distribution and optimize existing distribution, merchandising, pricing and promotional mix for all Home and Personal Care Categories. Working with Sales and Marketing this position will provide category management direction, consumer insights and fact-based selling to strategic business partners while helping grow market share and profitability.

* Provide fact-based information to support strategic direction on products to Senior Management, Brand Mangers, and Category Managers based on Market Research, Syndicated Data Analysis, Customer Point of Sale data and Competitive Intelligence.

* Provide strategic additional support to category team through data capture, data analysis, and planogram development.

* Be able to function autonomously and make decisions independently working with commercial business unit leaders.

* Develop and meet with retailers to outline specific strategies to optimize product mix, shelf/display space, merchandising tools and price promotions to more effectively reach targeted consumers.

* Conduct in-depth analysis of customer data that includes new distribution, promotion, trends and competitive analysis, pricing and promotion effectiveness.

* Manage and communicate knowledge of competitive product performance and business trends. Use competitive knowledge to provide brand and category mangers product recommendations.

* Work closely with sales on new products and feedback from sales and management.

* Develop and deliver seamless data solution tools from various sources.

* Provide leadership direct reports in the establishment of area plans, short/long term goals. Design functional area infrastructure and changes to supporting process and systems. Develop solutions to functional-area challenges.

* Bachelor's degree

* 5+ Years' experience in a progressive supply chain/replenishment role/operational role

* Experience in the online/Omni channel preferred

* SAP knowledge, inventory management and/or production experience is preferred

* Excellence communication skills - both oral and written

* Ability to excel in a fast paced, dynamic work environment

* Strong knowledge of MS Office, strong excel skills

* Work with syndicated data

* Experience with Scintilla

* Knowledge of shelf planogram software (JDA, Apollo, Spaceman)

* Ability to communicate effectively with all levels within the organization

* Knowledge of pricing mechanisms, elasticity, and promotion analysis

Working conditions are normal for an office environment.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.