Category Advisor; Hybrid

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McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Category Manager on a Consumer Products Division Sales Team
. This new hire will work in McCormick's US CPD Sales office
, located in Rogers, Arkansas
. The Category Manager will report to a Category Manager II.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and food service businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's Red Hot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden.

Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is  To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is  A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand.

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

The primary responsibility of this position is to lead our category management and shopper insights initiatives with our key strategic customers and provide thought leadership to both our internal & external stakeholders.

Understanding industry, consumer and category trends and translating those insights into actionable strategic business recommendations to achieve both McCormick and customer goals and objectives

Providing analysis and shopper insight driven recommendations against all key business drivers, and leading presentations related to category business reviews, assortment & space optimization, promotion & pricing effectiveness, and trade efficiency.

Leveraging all the analytic tools available to identify customer opportunities

Developing collaborative partnerships with key strategic customers so that McCormick is viewed as the category leader in providing flavor solutions and category recommendations for the categories in which we compete.

Bachelors Degree in Business, Sales, Marketing or other related field

5+ years Sales/Marketing experience, with a minimum of 2 years of Category Management experience within a CPG company

Familiarity with the Category Management process, and strong knowledge of syndicated and panel data (IRI, Nielsen, Spectra, etc.) as well as utilizing space management software (Apollo, JDA Pro Space, etc)

Knowledge and experience working with customer POS data systems (dunnhumby, Retail Link, etc)

Strong analytic skills, and demonstrated ability to translate insights into actionable business recommendations that deliver positive results

Excellent verbal and written presentation skills, with the ability to analyze and understand the data and then effectively communicate those insights to both internal and external audiences

Ability to react quickly and complete tasks in a timely manner to meet deadlines

Ability to work in cross-functional teams, self-motivated and team oriented

MBA

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McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion,national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsor ships upon hire or in the future.

United by flavor. Driven by results.

As a McCormick employee you’ll be empowered to focus on more than your individual responsibilities. You’ll have the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself—to have a say in where the company is going and how it’s growing.

Between our passion for flavor, our 130-year history of leadership and integrity, the competitive and comprehensive benefits we offer, and our culture, which is built on respect and opportunities for growth, there are many reasons to join us at McCormick.