Mars Inc

Sr. SRM Category Manager, Wet Dog

Mars Inc$90K — $120K *
Food & Beverages
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field or internship
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience working in cross-functional teams
  • Preferred experience in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Responsibilities

  • Manage pricing strategy for the Wet Dog category
  • Lead development of pricing architecture and strategy
  • Create long-term vision for trade and promotional architecture
  • Align with internal stakeholders on the SRM agenda
  • Collaborate with sales leadership on customer mix strategy
  • Manage the pet nutrition SKU assortment
  • Conduct annual category reviews to identify opportunities
  • Develop pricing and investment strategies to enhance profitability
  • Enhance digital SRM toolkit for broader team use
  • Leverage analytics for portfolio innovation

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a diverse and talented team
  • Access to Mars University for ongoing learning and development
  • Purpose-driven workplace culture
  • Industry competitive salary and benefits package
  • Company bonus opportunity
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Principal Accountabilities
  • Manage Wet Dog category pricing
  • Lead development of shelf back pricing architecture and strategy
  • Develop long term vision for omni channel trade, pricing, and promotional architecture
  • Manage key stakeholder groups throughout the organization to align with SRM agenda
  • Co-pilot development of customer mix strategy with sales leadership
  • Create and manage the US pet nutrition SKU assortment architecture
  • Lead annual SRM category reviews with business management teams to surface opportunities across price, products and mix for the enterprise
  • Develop annual price and investment strategy to maximize enterprise profitability
  • Product owner for digital SRM toolkit responsible for maintenance and enhancement of tools leveraged across broader SRM team
  • Leverage advanced analytics to drive step change in US pet nutrition portfolio innovation and advance the SRM digital toolkit


Critical Mars Leadership Capabilities
  • Technical & Functional Skills: Possess strong technical and analytical skills
  • Customer Focus: Understand customer needs and align margin strategies
  • Leveraging Insights to Action: Translate pricing insights into actionable recommendations for the marketing teams and the enterprise
  • Drive for Results: Demonstrate a strong commitment to achieving goals and objectives

Key Supporting Competencies
  • Analytical Acumen: Ability to analyze pricing data from various sources, manipulate information, and make appropriate recommendations
  • Problem Solving: Effectively identify and address pricing-related opportunities
  • Peer Relationships: Collaborate and foster positive relationships with cross-functional teams involved in pricing-related activities


Key Functional Skills/Knowledge
  • Demonstrated ability to manipulate information from various sources, analyze data, and make appropriate recommendations.
  • Strong Excel skillset for data manipulation and analysis.
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with internal and external teams
  • Proactive and service-oriented mindset to drive continuous improvement in trade processes.
  • Integrated marketing or sales functional experience
  • Learning Agility: Ability to adapt quicklyand apply new learnings quickly


Minimum Qualifications
  • 5-10 years of working experience and/or internship experience in a related field
  • Four-year college degree
  • Experience demonstrating advanced problem-solving and analytical capabilities in a cross-functional team environment


Preferred Qualifications
  • CPG experience


What can you expect from Mars?
Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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About Mars Inc

Mars, Incorporated is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products. It was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Mars operates in six business segments: Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks, and Symbioscience. Some of its most popular brands include M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, Skittles, and Pedigree. The company is known for its commitment to sustainability and has set a goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 67% by 2050.
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1911

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