Manager, Portfolio PPA Strategy

Chicago, IL (Unknown)

$108K/yr – $149K/yrManager4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 3 Year PPA Innovation Pipeline: Lead the collaborative development and execution of a multi-year Price Pack Architecture roadmap across multiple categories, ensuring alignment with brand guardrails and long-term business objectives.
  • Assortment Price Point Optimization: Conduct comprehensive assortment analysis to identify critical price points and optimal pack formats across various retail channels, matching product configurations to specific consumer purchasing behaviors.
  • Insights-Driven Architecture: Leverage deep consumer, shopper, and market insights to optimize packaging configurations, ensuring they are competitive, highly relevant, and visually/functionally appealing to target shoppers.
  • Commercialization Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the lead bridge between RGM, Brand, Insights, and Supply Chain to evaluate the commercial viability, pricing strategy, and shelf-impact of new pack formats.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Finance, Strategy, or related field required (MBA preferred).
  • 4 years of working experience in CPG, with a strong focus in Brand Management, Revenue Growth Management (RGM), Category Management, or Product Portfolio Strategy.
  • Strong data interpretation and analytical skills, with a proven ability to translate complex consumer and commercial data into actionable, premium-tier retail packaging strategies.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence, align, and work effectively across a highly cross-functional matrixed organization.
  • Consumer insight experience and Category Management experience
  • Experience with Nielson and IRI
  • Comfortable with Storytelling
  • A highly curious and creative problem solver with a positive, proactivecan-do attitude, resilience in navigating complex projects, and a passion for uncovering consumer-led product opportunities

Preferred

  • Previous experience in innovation nice to have

Benefits

  • industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
  • Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
  • participation in 401k plan
  • paid time off benefits
  • medical and dental benefits
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Manager, Portfolio PPA Strategy

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