Senior Category Strategy Lead - Chocolate
Job in
Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut, 06517, USA
Listed on 2026-07-08
Listing for:
Mondelēz International
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-08
Job specializations:
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Business
Business Development, Marketing Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Sales & Marketing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
Summary:
This role sets the direction of and then leverages insights & learning from broader category team to deliver strategic roadmaps, targets, and tracking.
Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
Summary:
This role sets the direction of and then leverages insights & learning from broader category team to deliver strategic roadmaps, targets, and tracking.
About You:
Are you an entrepreneurial sales superstar? With a love of chocolate bordering on the dangerous? Then Hu would be honored to have you on our team.
Responsibilities:
Category Strategy & Development:
- Identify headroom for growth, setting strategic targets on category share & channel distribution across the Hu & Enjoy Life portfolios.
- Define category & competitive landscape informing brand x category. roadmap for both annual planning and multi-year planning.
- Assess consumption performance v. in-year & longer-term roadmaps.
- Identify future fit categories in partnership with innovation team.
- Support channel & customer development (CCD) team in delivering category toolkits & influencing MAPs strategy.
- Set category learning objectives & required budgets in concert with Category Insights Manager (CIM), Insights & Analytics partners (I&A), and Brand team.
- Deliver regular category reporting to North America & North American Ventures businesses to illustrate brand priorities & latest learnings.
- Utilize & prioritize suite of tools developed by CIM to identify gaps & opportunities for strengthening category x brand insights.
- Ensure category team delivers on proper tracking to key metrics with robust reporting on category trends, competitive brand performance, consumer trends, customer performance.
- Support CIM in refreshing & expanding master selling story in support of category reviews.
- Unlock cross-team communication to ensure alignment of objectives, research, and budgets across broader sales x brand x I&A teams.
- Oversee team priorities & goal setting, support day-to-day management of category team, foster growth & development within category team.
- Dynamic, hands-on leader with demonstrated success as both a top-performing CPG salesperson and as a leader on winning teams.
- Deep understanding of Nielsen & Spins with the ability to develop a category story and key KPIs to outperform category growth.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing category insights and long-term strategy growth.
- Self-starter with the ability to take insights from data and put them to action in conjunction with RGM team.
- Extensive experience developing and executing highly impactful selling strategies.
- Adept at fostering strong partnerships with sales, marketing and RGM to develop a cohesive strategy that meets all company objectives.
- Fluent in Microsoft Office and excel.
In addition, Mondelez International offers the following 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. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
Salary and Benefits :
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales,…
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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