Category Leadership Manager

Category Leadership Manager

The Category Leadership Manager (CLM) plays an instrumental role as a research oriented, tactical member of the Category Leadership (CL) team that expands Constellation's reputation as a high-quality, valued provider of CL recommendations. Exhibiting accountability and dependability, the CLM is proactive, collaborative, logical, highly flexible in analytical approach, and able to focus on desired outcomes, not just reactive, quick solutions.

Influences and manages all space management projects for assigned National Account customer(s).

• Influences assigned retailers schematic process to implement key shopper insights. Shopper First Shelf.
• Leads space management analysis and designs category shelf schematics following Constellation's standardized planning processes, tools, and space strategies.
• Gather and combine complementary data from multiple sources. Cleanse, analyze, and validate data.
• Interpret data, draw conclusions, and develop insights and presentations
• Prioritize and lead assortment and space planning (drawing / validation of schematics) projects to plan, meet expectations and ensure successful completion of assortment and space planning projects
• Provide Category Management support including insights, performance analysis and identification of opportunities
• Collaborates with Sales partners to determine account priorities, and pursue most impactful initiatives pertaining to space, assortment, and other sales analytics.
• Conducts space and distribution opportunity analysis to optimize revenue and profit by improving shopping convenience.
• Makes product addition and deletion recommendations by brand and package.
• Changes sub-category or segment flow, or brand-blocking techniques as directed.
• Quantifies expected results of proposed planogram changes.
• Initiates and / or attends customer meetings as appropriate.
• Participates in the reset decision making process with other vendors and merchandisers.
• Establishes, controls, and implements retail execution plan methods and procedures to improve overall project effectiveness.
• Guides the CA in the collection of raw data from the customer and cleanses as necessary to ensure accuracy prior to conducting any analysis or forming recommendations.
• Maintains schematic archives with accurate data for all required store combinations.
• Reports changes implemented including physical space gains / losses by brewer / brand.
• Measures schematics, pre & post-implementation.
• Develop relationships with key personnel at all levels and departments with wholesalers and field sales who service these National Accounts.

Participates in a wide variety of ad-hoc analytical projects.

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Location : San Antonio, Texas

Additional Locations : Austin, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas

Job Type : Full time

Job Area : Sales Support

The salary range for this role is : $94,400.00 - $144,600.00

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