Category Manager
Job in
Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, 62777, USA
Listed on 2026-07-18
Listing for:
Illinois Ag
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-18
Job specializations:
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Business
Operations Management, Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Business Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Title:
Category Manager ####
Location:
Oakbrook Terrace, IL, Nationwide United States,USA #### Company:
McCain Foods #### Industry Sector:
Food/Processing ####
Industry Type:
Food & Beverage Products and Processing #### Career Type:
Operations #### Job Type:Full Time #### Minimum Years Experience
Required:
5 #### Salary:$81,600.00 - $ . USD annually $81,600.00-$ YEAR #### Open Until:
September 12, 2026 ### Get Job Alerts
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**** Job Description
** In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences – together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
** About the role.
** The Category Manager is a key member of McCain’s North America Go-To-Market (GTM) team and serves as a trusted category partner for internal and external customers. This role blends strategic thinking with strong execution, transforming data and market insights into compelling category stories and actionable business recommendations. The Category Manager plays a critical role in shaping channel and customer strategies that drive positive category outcomes, strengthen customer partnerships, and deliver disproportionate growth for McCain.
This will be for our Food service channel.
** What you’ll be doing.
*** Provide category leadership and insight to inform McCain’s annual operating plan, commercial strategy, and channel plans across North America
- Food service
* Develop and adapt standard category reporting to proactively identify opportunities, support QBRs, and inform portfolio, innovation, and gap analysis from a GTM lens
* Partner closely with GTM channel leaders and cross-functional customer teams to shape the category components of Joint Business Plans and Customer Growth Plans
* Translate channel strategies into customer-specific executional plans that support listings, distribution, assortment, pricing, promotions, space, and layout decisions
* Own the development, implementation, and tracking of category execution plans that enhance customer engagement and fuel sustainable commercial growth
* Collaborate with channel leads, culinary, and sales analytics teams to deliver differentiated category solutions that grow the business and the category
* Monitor and evaluate sales execution performance at the category, channel, and North America levels to support target setting and planning
* Deliver value-added commercial insights and analysis to support management decision-making and in-market execution
* Ensure adherence to commercial controls, processes, and governance to enable consistent and coordinated sales execution
* Share category performance results, insights, and action plans with channel managers, channel leads, and sales partners
** What you’ll need to be successful.
*** University degree required
* Minimum of 5 years of progressive commercial experience
* Experience working within a global organization; food industry experience strongly preferred
* Food service experience or working knowledge would be nice to have
* Strong commercial acumen, including data analysis, planning, forecasting, and performance tracking
* Proven ability to translate data and insights into clear, compelling business recommendations
* Demonstrated ability to influence across all levels of a matrix organization
* Entrepreneurial mindset with a hands-on, problem-solving approach
* Strong storytelling, communication, and presentation skills
* High level of resilience, adaptability, and comfort navigating ambiguity
* Performance-driven with a strong sense of urgency and accountability
* Alignment with McCain’s values, leadership principles, and culture of humility
** About the team.
** This role sits within the North America Go-To-Market team and works cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Culinary, Analytics, and Channel Leadership. The Category Manager operates in a highly collaborative, matrixed environment and plays…
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