Category Insights Manager

Job DetailsJob Location: Gorilla Glue Tri County - Sharonville, OH 45241
Summary Description: 

The Category Insights Manager is an integral part of the Brand team serving as a leader for insights and shopper behaviors for the O’Keeffe’s brand for each respective retailer within the channel. They will be responsible for analyzing market data, shopper behavior, and competitive landscape to generate actionable insights that inform category management strategies, including product assortment, promotion, and distribution, ultimately supporting sales driving initiatives within a specific product category by collaborating with cross-functional teams across sales, brand, and SS&P.

This position will work in support of SS&P and Sales in delivering brand objectives and works across multifunctional support team to effectively deliver customer needs.

Core Competencies:

Insight
Collaboration
Communication
Critical Thinking
Customer Focus
Detail Orientation
Influence
Flexibility
Planning
Problem Solving
Reasoning
Self-Management

Duties:

Full analysis and insights of sales fundamentals to gain share profitably
Collect and analyze syndicated data (Nielsen, Luminate), retailer data, and internal sales data to identify trends, patterns, and key performance indicators 
Develop custom reports and dashboards to visualize insights and communicate key findings to stakeholders
Analyze and define the growth levers relevant to customer with specific focus on the category, selling through category insights
Liaison between SS&P and Brand and Sales team focused on specific customer in field and supporting the Sales for category sell in stories
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop category strategies aligned with overall business objectives
Collaborate with Data Science, Consumer Insights & retailer teams to provide cohesive data attribution for the business and wholistic sell-in stories
Track category performance against key metrics (sales, share) and identify areas for improvement
Effectively communicate category insights and recommendations to stakeholders across different departments including sales, brand, and SS&P
Develops business opportunities and strategies to grow brand within category
Category expert for the Brand and competitive products at a specific customer
Serves as a key resource for presentations for both internal and external customers.
Other duties assigned by management.
Periodic travel might be required.

Qualifications & Skills:

Demonstrated proficiency creating inferences/actionable insights from syndicated data and/or customer insights (Nielsen and Luminate/Scintilla experience strongly preferred)
Bachelor’s degree preferred.
7+ years of experience in retail analytics
Forefront thinking
Strong analytic skill set with the ability to provide actionable recommendations based on critical metrics
Experience  presenting to & selling with retail customers
Written and oral communication skills
Should be goal oriented, confident, outgoing, with a desire to succeed.
Business analytic platform experience (Power BI or other relevant software)
Experience in enterprise data stewardship
Experienced user of Microsoft office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stoop, reach, bend, stand, walk, lift, pull, push, grasp, talk, hear, see, and lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as reading handwritten and or typed material and must have the ability to focus. 

Company Values:

Adhere to The Gorilla Glue Company’s Core Values that ensure everyone works together to exceed expectations.

Have fun, be passionate and show it!
Act with integrity and respect in all relationships.
Communicate openly and appreciate the effort of others.
Embrace knowledge, growth and change.
Strive for excellence in what we do every day!

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