Senior Category Management Associate
Senior Category Management Associate
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$ 80000 - 100000
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Job Description
Location: Remote
Who We Are: Banza reimagines your favorite comfort foods like pasta pizza mac & cheese and waffles using chickpeas. Why Because we know chickpeas arent just delicious theyre also one of the most nutritious and sustainable foods. Yet 80 of the country isnt eating enough of them. Our mission is to inspire people to eat more chickpeas and other beans making a positive impact on human health and the environment. Banza is the fastestgrowing pasta brand in the country and our products are available in over 21000 stores nationwide. Weve been named one of TIME Magazines Best Inventions of the Year Adweeks Best Food Brand and are proud to have fans at Good Morning America The New York Times Food & Wine Bon Appetit and more.
Your Mission: Banza is more than just a pasta company and as we expand to additional categories were accelerating our growth and bringing our products to more people! As a Senior Category Management Associate youll support strategic growth efforts for the entire Banza portfolio by taking advantage of Banzas wealth of data to drive smarter business decisions. Youll help lead category management efforts across the organization and ensure decisions and sales materials are rooted in insights.
What Youll Do:
- Support category management efforts across Banzas Pasta Mac Pizza and Waffles product lines
- Collaborate with product line owners to help tailor company strategy to sales and ensure the Sales team is armed with insights and data to drive sales
- Collaborate with sales on category review preparation to understand overall strategy including helping craft presentations insights and marketing materials tailored to customers
- Create reports and insights using data from syndicated platforms (Nielsen Numerator etc) and retailer portals
- Support Sales and Operations teams on forecasting strategy and process
- Work closely with executive leadership and crossfunctionally across the organization to drive growth and bring Banza to millions more happy customers
Who You Are:
- BA/BS with 34 years of work experience
- Experience in CPG/food in a category management role
- Crossfunctional project manager experienced in operating within and across sales marketing category management operations and product
- Highly analytical with strong quantitative and Excel skills
- Category management experience in Tableau Nielsen/IRI or experience with other large datasets.
- Intuitive understanding of how to design and optimize concise sales stories to partner with customers
- Driven and intrinsically motivated highly organized with the ability to jump from a single stores sales results to an entire brand strategy
- Able to both ruthlessly prioritize and amicably communicate
- Passionate able to sell a vision to those around you while being willing to change your mind when new information comes to light
- Passionate about what Banzas doing!
To Apply: Write a cover letter describing why you want to join Banza and why you would be an excellent fit for this role (yes we actually read every cover letter! and then apply directly to this posting. If you have any questions please email
Were aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they dont believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Banza.
Compensation
Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors including qualifications for the role experience level skillset and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. The salary band for this role is $80000$100000. The range is for the expectations as laid out in the job description however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.
Perks and Benefits
- Equity in Banza
- Medical Dental and Vision Insurance starting day 1: Banza pays 80 of the monthly premiums for employees and 70 for dependents
- One Medical Membership
- Short Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Commuter Benefits
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off: 20 vacation days 10 holidays 6 sick days 2 personal days a birthday day off and a 7 week sabbatical after 5 continuous years of employment.
- Extended Leave: ShortTerm Disability Parental Leave and other Paid Family Leave. Support provided by our endtoend leave management partner Sparrow
- New Parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave plus additional optional leave time to add and 4 weeks of flexible return to work arrangements.
- Breast milk shipping service for traveling team members provided by Milk Stork
- Monthly fitness internet and phone stipends
- Monthly lunch stipend to encourage team member connection
- Annual education stipend
- Home office setup stipend
- Unlimited Pasta Rice & Mac
- $500 annual stipend to purchase our pizza and waffles wherever its sold
- Quarterly snack box for remote employees
- Lively NYC office stocked with snacks and beverages
- Quarterly inperson and remote events
Our Commitment: Banza is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of inspiring people to eat more chickpeas and other beans we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives which comes from diversity of all types at all levels of the organization. Facilitating diversity and inclusion is the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women veterans people with all abilities people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.
Banza is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individuals sex age race color creed national origin alienage religion marital status pregnancy sexual orientation or affectional preference gender identity and expression disability genetic trait or predisposition carrier status citizenship veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. Banza will consider qualified applicants including those with criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.
Banza participates in EVerify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. As a participating employer we provide the federal government with Form I9 information to verify work authorization. For more information about EVerify please visit .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
