HARIBO of America, Inc. · 4 hours ago
Category Manager, Walmart
Bentonville, AR
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expHARIBO of America, Inc. is seeking a Category Manager for their Walmart channel team to support growth within the Walmart and Sam’s Club U.S. business. The role involves developing category growth strategies, delivering actionable insights, and participating in customer meetings to drive competitive advantage for HARIBO.
Consumer Goods
Responsibilities
Lead the development of retailer-specific category growth strategies for assigned customers/retailers
Deliver actionable 4P insights – Product, Placement, Pricing, Promotion) that directly fuel selling efforts and joint business planning
Create customer-facing selling stories
Act as a thought leader in internal strategy discussions
Participate in sales meetings and HQ/headquarter calls with Sales team
Build scalable reporting tools and dashboards to drive data-based decision making
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
5+ years of experience in Category Management, Sales, Sales Strategy, or Commercial Insights roles within the CPG/Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Deep expertise in syndicated and shopper data tools such as IRI, Circana, NielsenIQ, Numerator, or other related syndicated data tools
3+ years of customer facing, headquarters calls experience supporting regional or national retailers (any channel)
This is role is located on-site at the HARIBO of America satellite office in Bentonville, Arkansas. At this time we are not looking at relocation candidates
This role requires the ability to travel 20%+ of the time as needed (outside of local Bentonville travel), nation-wide, including overnight stays
Preferred
Prior Walmart and/or Sam's Club experience – either working on the supplier side or working directly for Walmart HQ
Experience in multiple channels of trade (for example: Convenience, Dollar, Value, Mass, Club, Grocery, etc)
Prior experience in candy, confectionery, snacks, or related fast-moving consumer good
Company
HARIBO of America, Inc.
As the No. 1 fruit gum brand with around 8,500 employees in 26 countries, we focus on top quality and unique team spirit of the HARIBO Family.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Hakan Zor
Executive Vice President & CPO
Amy Eberhardt, MSHR
Senior Manager, HR Business Partner
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