Associate Manager, Category Strategy

As an Associate Manager on our Category Strategy team, you will help lead category growth platform development by providing category programs and plans for a portfolio of our Frozen and Refrigerated brands, including iconic brands such as Reddi-Wip, Marie Callender's, Smart Balance, Earth Balance, Parkay, Blue Bonnet, Odom's Tennessee Pride, and Hebrew National. You will report to a Category Strategy Manager.

What You'll Do:

• Provide category analysis and business impacts to the sales team, identifying opportunities to enhance customer/category goals and those of the company
• Customize existing corporate category initiatives and plans to propel company and category sales at the customer
• Help provide category insights to develop collaborative solutions
• Assist team to exceed established shelving and merchandising goals
• Provide category insights to the account in our priority categories, striving to, or confirming the position of lead vendor within the category review process
• Work with internal partners and retailer contacts to develop and help implement category growth plans
• Educate sales team on new item programs and category rationale for development; develop proposals for distribution and shelving changes to the account
• Ensure category plans are delivered

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 1-3+ years of consumer packaged goods (CPG) related experience in sales or analytical roles
• Data integration and interpretation experience
• Experience summarizing a holistic sales story from multiple sources of data, such as syndicated, loyalty, consumer and industry trends
• Understanding the fundamentals of syndicated panel data
• Experience working directly with customers in growing category sales
• Experience with MS Office Suite, Nielsen/IRI; experience with space management tools helpful but not required
• Customer loyalty card knowledge
• Experience in Excel to develop and maintain complex spreadsheets and automate processes
• Working knowledge of retail merchandising and in-store execution tactics

Our Modern Workplace:

Conagra's culture of collaboration enhances our ability to meet critical business goals, deliver value to customers and consumers and provide you with the flexibility you need to achieve a better work-life balance. We carefully consider each role and how often each team member needs to collaborate in-person. We ask that you work from our Chicago headquarters office 4 days a week.

Located in downtown Chicago along the Chicago River, our corporate headquarters is in the landmark Merchandise Mart building, aka "The Mart", with access to public transit, and several options for dining and shopping in the area.

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Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance
• Wealth: great pay, incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences
• Balance: paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)

Our Company:

Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team that's passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, and emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®.

We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law.