Sr Category Manager (CPG)

Acosta

$90K — $120K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree preferred (or equivalent work experience)
  • 3+ years related work experience
  • Category Management Certification preferred
  • Deep working knowledge of the CPG industry
  • Proficiency with industry tools and data sources for data analysis
  • Strong storytelling capability with data synthesis
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI

Responsibilities

  • Analyze complex data to diagnose business performance and provide proactive recommendations
  • Translate complex data into clear, compelling business stories
  • Lead the category review process from discovery to recommendation delivery
  • Build executive-ready presentations using various data sources
  • Understand client KPIs and deliver insightful scorecards and recommendations
  • Work closely with clients and cross-functional teams to align insights and execution plans
  • Proactively identify performance drivers, opportunity gaps, and prioritized actions

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with flexible office schedule
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Access to advanced analytical tools and resources
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Ability to influence strategic business decisions and outcomes
Full Job Description
Job Description

This is a #hybrid position, working in the office 3 days a week.

You will serve as the strategic insights partner transforming category, shopper, syndicated, POS, and retailer data into actionable recommendations that drive growth. Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver advanced analytics and business insights that influence assortment, pricing, promotion, distribution, shelving, sales, market share, and profitability decisions. Leverage data-driven storytelling to identify opportunities, improve performance, and support profitable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze complex category, shopper, syndicated, POS, retailer, and internal performance data to diagnose business performance and provide thoughtful, proactive recommendations across the 4-Ps (product, pricing, promotion, placement).


  • Translate complex datainto clear, compelling business stories that connect analytical findings to client priorities, retailer strategies, category implications, and actionable growth recommendations.


  • Lead the category review process from discovery through recommendation delivery, aligning cross-functional partners around clear business questions, insight-backed solutions, and measurable next steps.


  • Build executive-ready presentations and category narratives using syndicated, shopper, retailer, POS, and other data sources to influence client decisions, support customer engagement, and translate analysis into measurable business outcomes.


  • Understand your client's KPIs that drive profit, sales, share, distribution, and category growth; deliver scorecards, reporting, and recommendations that validate progress and identify risks or opportunities.


  • Work closely and often with clients, business managers, sales teams, category management, customer teams, and internal stakeholders to become a trusted advisor and align insights, recommendations, and execution plans.


  • Provide follow-up and summarize results of analysis; create case studies, success stories, and recap materials that demonstrate the value of insights-led recommendations and support future client engagement.

  • Proactively identify performance drivers, opportunity gaps, risks, and prioritized actions across assortment, pricing, promotion, shelving, distribution, and retailer execution.


Qualifications

Education Requirements:
  • High School Diploma/GED, Bachelor's Degree (preferred)


  • Related work experience can be substituted for the educational requirement


  • Category Management Certification Preferred


Work Experience Requirements:

  • 3+ years related work experience


Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

  • Deep working knowledge of the CPG industry, including category management principles, syndicated and retailer data sources, shopper insights, sales drivers, and customer dynamics.


  • Proficiency with industry tools and data sources used to complete assigned work, including syndicated, shopper, POS, retailer, and internal performance data.


  • Strong storytelling capability with the ability to synthesize multiple data sources, simplify complex analysis, identify the "so what," and deliver concise, executive-ready narratives that influence decisions and drive action.


  • Demonstrate an advanced degree of proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI as needed; experience with Circana/IRI, NielsenIQ, retailer portals, and AI-enabled productivity tools preferred.


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