Associate Manager Category Leadership
Lamb Weston

Job Info

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Title: Associate Manager Category Leadership

Location: Naperville, IL

Country: United States of America

About Lamb Weston

Lamb Weston is a leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world. For more than 60 years, we've produced innovative, inventive products that make life better for our customers and their customers.

Job Description Summary

Supports the Category Leadership process for assigned sales area. Collaboratively works with category leadership team, category execution team, sales team, supply chain, marketing team and the customer in the development of successful Customer Category Business Plans. Monitors sales and analyzes performance trends to identify issues and opportunities.

Job Description

• Participates in Category Leadership planning, analysis, business reviews & opportunity targeting for assigned sales area with emphasis on strategic and preferred customers.
  
• Enables sales teams to provide category-focused counsel to customers supporting the innovation, promotional, and campaign analysis from a category perspective. This also includes customer KPI scorecarding.
  
• Identifies customer opportunities and recommended actions by conducting comprehensive analyses of category for assigned customer teams.
  
• Supports new and core item plans from a category perspective.
  
• Conducts periodic and annual category reviews incorporating scorecard results
  
• Conducts assortment, promotion analysis and other tactical analyses for assigned customer teams. This also includes customer KPI scorecarding.
  
• Develops and maintains scheduled data reports, and conducts ad hoc reporting, as needed. This includes internal customer data, syndicated consumption data as well as Lamb Weston shipment data.
  
• Supports the development of sales presentations for assigned teams, ensuring recommendations are category focused.
  
• Manages quarterly 4 C's Report outs to the Leadership Team.
  
• Conducts distribution analysis, with a focus on improving warehouse freezer productivity and consumer experience. This includes development and recommendation of category gap analysis and product placement
  
• Attends customer sales calls supporting the sales team as needed.
  

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree
  
• Experience: 3-5 years of related industry experience or a related combination of education and experience
  
• In addition: In-depth expertise in the use and applications of a variety of technologies and tools: Microsoft Office Suite including advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, Scorecard development, Look Ups, advanced Formulas); Expertise in industry related data sources (NPD Supply & Potato Tracks, Spectra, Technomic, Datessentials, Firefly); SAP and Salesforce.com experience preferred
  
• Strong financial acumen
  
• Up to 25% travel
  

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
  
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
  
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
  
• Paid Time Off
  
• Financial Wellness - Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
  
• Family-Friendly Employee events
  
• Employee Assistance Program services - mental health and other concierge type services
  

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Job Requisition ID: Req-230162

Time Type: Full time

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law

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