Team Lead, Category Leadership; National Grocery

About the Role

Lead the strategic growth agenda for Kroger and Albertsons as a Category Leadership Team Lead, driving high-impact partnerships and next-level category strategies. In this role, you will inspire and develop a team of associate managers while translating insights into actionable, growth-focused solutions. You ll champion customer needs across SCJ, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners and building strong relationships with category buying teams, ideally influencing at least one level up to unlock new opportunities and elevate our joint business performance.

• Develop & execute growth agenda (& strategies to achieve growth) for Kroger & Albertson s. This will be done through discovery sessions (identifying needs & priorities for each customer), setting the agenda for customer engagements throughout the year, identifying opportunities to drive growth & driving best in class category reviews & planogram resets
• Lead and develop a team of Category Leadership Associate Managers on Kroger and Albertson s across all business units (HC, AC, PC, HS) and help them understand their role & responsibility within the customer growth agendas
• Coach the team on developing fact-based insights and recommendations via storytelling that will influence the retailer s category strategies & decisions
• Lead and/or play an active role in customer presentations. Through a deep understanding of the consumer/shopper and retailer priorities, translate growth opportunities to the overall customer/category strategy
• Where appropriate, manage and deliver against the responsibilities of the Category Captaincy process in partnership with the customer
• Evaluate/ monitor all customer category growth solutions, turn analysis into recommended action and continually work to improve effectiveness of the category and efficiencies for the customers
• Be the voice of the customer/team s support & research needs & opportunities (shopper, consumer, etc.) & champion these internally with: CIBA Shopper COE, Omni Marketing, Brand, etc.
• Work closely with SCJ account sales team on key external & internal engagements: JBP, Growth Summit Sessions, IGP/Grow, etc. Providing category/brand growth consulting & thought leadership.
• Look for synergies between Kroger/Albertson s teams & work streams. Share best practices, learnings & when possible, drive efficiency through using the same approaches
• Drive new CL capabilities within the team by ensuring the team gets training & understands use cases to apply capabilities. Share use cases with the broader CL team

• Bachelor s degree and 7+ years of commercial experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5+ years of commercial experience
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship

• 2+ years of people management experience
• 5+ years of experience in Category Management or Shopper Insights
• 3+ years of business analytics experience
• Strong analytical background and understanding of Category Management and Shopper Insights to drive category and SCJ growth
• Supports and guides Kroger and Albertson s in their go-to-market strategies that incorporate shopper insights and market trends
• Identify next generation Category tools to best understand the retailer shopper and unlock category growth
• Experience in CPG and/or retail, with Kroger/Albertson s experience as a benefit
• Good communication skills, ability to influence internal and external customers and to produce impact on the business
• Experience working with syndicated data software (i.e., IRI or Nielsen), JDA and/or Apollo. Shelf IQ preferred
• Experience with advanced analytics around promotional / non promotional and pricing strategy
• Experience working with Microsoft Office programs specifically Excel and Power Point
• Experience with retailer specific data such as 84.51

• Full-time onsite role in SC Johnson Cincinnati office
• Ability to travel up to 30%
• Remote work is available once per week for eligible employees
• This role is eligible for relocation

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