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McCormick & Company Inc. a global leader in the spice flavor and seasonings industry is seeking a fulltime Category Manager on a Consumer Products Division Sales Team. This new hire will work in McCormicks 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 14000 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 ecommerce retailfood manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick Frenchs Franks RedHot Stubbs OLD BAY Lawrys Zatarains Ducros Vahin 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 Flavorwhere 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.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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 ProSpace 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 crossfunctional teams selfmotivated and team oriented

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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 religionnational origin disability protectedveteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.

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