Category Manager - Remote

Overview

Category Manager - Remote role at Eagle Family Foods. Eagle Foods is a diversified food company with brands including Eagle Brand, Magnolia, PET, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper, and Suddenly Salad. We focus on building brands, categories, and people, with operations across U.S. retail channels, food service, export, U.S. military, and private label business.

• Serve as the category expert by delivering category and shopper insights and actionable go-to-market recommendations.
• Partner with field sales and cross-functional teams (Marketing, Sales Strategy & Planning, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance) to drive total category growth through data analysis, shopper/consumer insights, and trends supporting brand initiatives and product launches.
• Develop and deliver innovative sales enablers to support sell-in across all customers.
• Conduct regular competitive reviews and reporting across retailers to drive assortment, distribution, placement, and aisle recommendations.
• Partner with Marketing to lead monthly business reviews on category, brand, and competitive performance, including analyses and reports on sales, competitive activity, and promotional results, and monitoring trends with internal and external data sources.
• Support annual planning and channel/customer-specific projects as needed.
• Own DSMP (Distribution, Shelving, Merchandising, Pricing) KPI tracking to monitor execution across all customers.
• Compile and present Post-Promotional Analytics to stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Manage standardized reporting to ensure consistent and valuable category insights.
• Influence the line review process by leveraging shopper insights to optimize assortment, planogram space, and flow.
• Lead training sessions on new analytical tools and resources for the Sales team.
• Operate as an independent contributor with no direct reports.

• Demonstrated strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into insights.
• Proven ability to build compelling category stories using data and analytics.
• Clear and consistent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-starter with the ability to translate insights into sustainable growth strategies and action plans.
• Strong knowledge of syndicated data sources (Nielsen/IRI) and trade spend reporting tools.
• Effective project management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex projects.

Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach above shoulders, taste and/or smell, or talk and/or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision requirements include close vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions: The work environment may include exposure to fumes or airborne particles, chemicals, and non-weather-related extreme cold. The noise level is usually moderate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Eagle Foods is an equal employment opportunity employer. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, military status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable laws. Harassment of applicants or employees based on protected categories is prohibited. The policy also complies with applicable laws regarding unemployment status in hiring decisions.