Your Opportunity as the Associate Category Manager
Play a critical role on the Walmart Coffee Category Advisory Team by delivering category insights and helping execute merchandising strategy. Leverage data analysis, visualization, and retail strategy expertise to drive category performance. Guide decision‑making through compelling data stories, reporting, and visualizations, and build trusted relationships with Walmart partners to activate key elements of category strategy.
Location: Bentonville, AR (JMS Regional Walmart Office)
Work Arrangements: Hybrid - onsite a minimum of 2 days per week
In this role you will:
Deliver strategic, actionable insights from business trends and shopper behavior using Scintilla and syndicated data
Support Category Advisory initiatives at retail by translating insights into weekly reporting, dashboards, and modular/planogram recommendations.
Apply a broad understanding of the competitive landscape to inform customer and category initiatives
Partner closely with retailer, actively participating in customer calls to align on insights and execution
Assist in the development and implementation of Customer specific Category Leadership Plans (CLP) and 4P tactical solutions
Collaborate and influence across the various Strategic Business Areas (SBAs)
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree
2+ years of relevant Consumer Packaged Goods experience
2+ years of Category Management experience
Experience leveraging Circana or other syndicated data sources
Working knowledge of Modular Planning / Planogram software (JDA/Blue Yonder)
Experience building relationships with customers / retailers
Strong analytical skills, problem solving and storytelling experience
Ability to travel up to 10%
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role (not required):
Experience leveraging Scintilla
Shelf IQ experience
Experience with Tableau and/or other data visualization tools from a reporting perspective
The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to make food people and pets love by offering a diverse family of brands available across North America. We are proud to lead in the coffee, peanut butter, fruit spreads, frozen handheld, sweet baked goods, dog snacks and cat food categories by offering brands consumers trust for themselves and their families each day including Folgers®, Dunkin'®, Café Bustelo®, Jif®, Smucker's® Uncrustables®, Smucker's®, Hostess®, Voortman®, Milk-Bone® and Meow Mix®. Through our unwavering commitment to producing high quality products, operating responsibly and ethically and delivering on our Purpose, we will continue to grow our business while making a positive impact on society.
