Responsibilities

• Help support an organizational capability in customer centricity, enable the sales team for selling and executional success, and represent the voice of customer/sales internally.
• Bring company and category strategies to life in the marketplace via strong working relationships with sales teams and critical customers.
• Influence future innovation pipeline programs based on channel insights.
• Provide key analysis in facilitating new item distribution forecasts by channel / customer.
• Drive sales plans around assortment, merchandising, pricing and shelving for our brands, monitoring and assisting in the delivery of top-line and bottom line commitments from sales perspective.
• Assist in planning, development and presentation of sales brand materials at all key Trade Shows and Customer Collaboration Planning sessions , ensuring our sales strategies and brand initiatives are well represented.
• Lead the development of high quality and fact-based Selling Stories and Ready to Sell (RTS) materials.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Supply Chain, or a closely related field.
• Experience: 5 years of progressive professional experience in Customer Marketing, Trade Marketing, Category Management, Brand Management, or Sales Operations within the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry.
• Cross-Functional Experience: Proven track record of working collaboratively across diverse, matrixed functions (e.g., Sales, Brand Marketing, Supply Chain, RD, and third-party vendors).
• Project Management: Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-portfolio initiatives end-to-end, from strategic concept development to successful in-store retail execution.

Preferred

• Advanced Degree: MBA or advanced degree in a related business field.
• Snacking/Confectionery Retail Experience: Direct experience working within the confectionery, snacking, or highly impulse-driven retail categories.
• Broker/Vendor Management: Experience directly managing relationships and execution with third-party merchandising or display vendors.

Benefits

• industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.