Category Manager

8 hours ago

Mississauga, Canada Bayer Full time

**At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.**

**Category Manager**

Based on holistic external analysis and understanding of customer and brand priorities, develop insights to design pricing, placement and promotional strategies on a national basis and tailored to our retailer partners.

Bayer is committed to a flexible hybrid working environment. This is a permanent position based out of Mississauga, Ontario.

**What you will do**:

- Conduct frequent and ad-hoc analysis of customer specific and national data (i.e. Nielsen MarketTrack & Numerator panel data, Retailer POS/Insights data, etc) to identify performance opportunities, and to recommend solutions to close gaps
- Develop overall pricing and promotion (Trade Fundamentals) strategies for our brands. Inclusive of Display Strategy/Design & Net Revenue Management (NRM), Price Pack Architecture (PPA), and feature/regular pricing
- Work with brand and sales teams to design presentations for customers, inclusive of making merchandising recommendations, accelerating category growth and launching new products
- Lead & develop planogram recommendations, working with outside vendors or in Prospace to build shelving proposals based on shopper based design principles
- Own relationship with outside data vendors, including Nielsen, Springboard, Sequoia and others. Ensure data validation to drive accuracy of databases/tools and train commercial team on usage
- Implement design, set up and interpretation of sales fundamentals research and novel Nielsen studies.

**Who you are**:

- Bachelors degree, with 5/+ years’ experience in Category Management, Brand Management and/or Sales. Preference within CPG, OTC or FMCG industries
- Must have minimum 1 year account level sales experience with a major retailer like Walmart, Costco, Shoppers Drug Mart, Loblaw, Metro/Jean Coutu, etc.
- Strong excel skills and the ability to analyze and synthesize large amounts of data to make recommendations
- Ability to use data sources to build presentations that are concise down to key insights and are easily understood
- Strong project and time management skills
- Excellent English written and oral communication skills

**What we offer**:

- Competitive compensation and rewards package
- Collaborative, diverse and inclusive culture
- Career development and global opportunities
- Work-life flexibility programs such as flex hours, employee discounts, volunteer days, wellness, and other employee offerings

Bayer is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences and believe that our people are our most valuable asset. The collective sum of individual life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities that our employees invest in their work represents our culture, reputation, and Bayer’s values and purpose.

**Location**:
Canada : Ontario : Mississauga

**Division**:
Consumer Health

**Reference Code**:
836903

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