McCormick & Company, Inc.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated, a global leader in flavor, is seeking a full time Category Managerin its ConsumerProducts Division Western Regional Sales Office

located inScottsdale, AZ.  With more than $3 billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavorful products to the entire food industry – retail outlets, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses.  Every day, no matter where or what you eat, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick.  McCormick brings passion to flavor™!

As an employer recognized for our exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick & Co., Inc. offers a wide variety of benefits, programs and services which address the needs of employees and their families.  McCormick’s benefits include, but are not limited to tuition assistance, medical & dental, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), paid holidays and vacations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The primary responsibility of this position is to lead our category management and shopper insights initiatives with our key strategic customers, and provide thought leadership to both our internal & external stakeholders, including our sales teams, marketing, and at all levels of the customer.  Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Understanding industry, consumer and category trends and translating those insights into actionable strategic business recommendations to achieve both McCormick and customer goals and objectives
• Providing analysis and shopper insight driven recommendations against all key business drivers, and leading presentations related to category business reviews, assortment & space optimization, promotion & pricing effectiveness, and trade efficiency.
• Leveraging all the analytic tools available to identify customer opportunities
• Developing collaborative partnerships with key strategic customers so that McCormick is viewed as the category leader in providing flavor solutions and category recommendations for the categories in which we compete
• Manage and develop one direct Analyst position and up to three indirect Analyst positions

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Sales, Marketing or other related field required.
• 5+ years Sales/Marketing experience required
• Minimum of 3 years of Category Management experience within a CPG company preferred.
• Familiarity with the Category Management process, and strong knowledge of syndicated and panel data (IRI, Nielsen, Spectra, etc.) required.
• Familiarity with space management software (Apollo, JDA ProSpace, etc) preferred.
• Knowledge and experience working with customer POS data systems (dunnhumby, Retail Link, etc) preferred
• Strong analytic skills, and demonstrated ability to translate insights into actionable business recommendations that deliver positive results required.
• Excellent verbal and written presentation skills, with the ability to analyze and understand the data and then effectively communicate those insights to both internal and external audiences required.
• Ability to react quickly and complete tasks in a timely manner to meet deadlines required.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams, self-motivated and team oriented required.
• Willingness to relocate for future assignments required.

If interested, please visit www.mccormickcorporation.comand apply for position #100277.