Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream · 2 days ago
Customer & Category Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$90K/yr - $140K/yr
5+ years expDreyer's Grand Ice Cream is a leading ice cream manufacturer that is part of Froneri, known for its robust portfolio of brands. The Customer & Category Manager will build partnerships with key retailers by providing consumer insights and strategic positioning to drive category growth and profitability.
Food and BeverageFood ProcessingSnack Food
Responsibilities
Ownership of your projects
Fast decision making
Access to the leadership team on a regular basis
Deep understanding of what it takes to make our incredible ice cream
Participation and involvement across brands and customers with you leading the way with ice cream category expertise
Ensure consumer insights, data analysis, and strategic positioning come together to deliver unbiased category insights and solutions that will grow the Ice Cream category
Identify category trends, opportunities and threats, leading monthly/quarterly calls with customers to call out key performance indicators and future optimizations
Drive 4 P strategies for our retailers, collaborating with cross-functional groups as sales and marketing and tailoring recommendations to specific customer needs
Lead category strategy and approach in JBP, Top to Top, Category Review, and yearly planning meetings at respective accounts/channels
Qualification
Required
BS/BA Preferred
5+ Years experience in customer facing, sales planning, or category management sales roles in CPG industry
Seeking category or sales experience working within the Club channel
Commercial experience, high developed collaboration and influencing skills, self-starter, results driven, entrepreneurial
Experience in retail sales roles a plus
Knowledge of customer best practices, market intelligence, category/channel/ shopper trends and shopper Insight into actionable ideas
History in data management (IRI, Nielsen, other data sources) and insight building. Proven ability to develop sound insights and strategies across multiple data points
Benefits
Free ice cream
Company
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream is a manufacturer of ice cream products.
1001-5000 employees
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Chief Executive Officer
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