Senior SRM Category Manager, Wet Dog

Principal Accountabilities

• Manage Wet Dog category pricing
• Lead development of shelf back pricing architecture and strategy
• Develop long term vision for omni channel trade, pricing, and promotional architecture
• Manage key stakeholder groups throughout the organization to align with SRM agenda
• Co-pilot development of customer mix strategy with sales leadership
• Create and manage the US pet nutrition SKU assortment architecture
• Lead annual SRM category reviews with business management teams to surface opportunities across price, products and mix for the enterprise
• Develop annual price and investment strategy to maximize enterprise profitability
• Product owner for digital SRM toolkit responsible for maintenance and enhancement of tools leveraged across broader SRM team
• Leverage advanced analytics to drive step change in US pet nutrition portfolio innovation and advance the SRM digital toolkit

Critical Mars Leadership Capabilities

• Technical & Functional Skills: Possess strong technical and analytical skills
• Customer Focus: Understand customer needs and align margin strategies
• Leveraging Insights to Action: Translate pricing insights into actionable recommendations for the marketing teams and the enterprise
• Drive for Results: Demonstrate a strong commitment to achieving goals and objectives

Key Supporting Competencies

• Analytical Acumen: Ability to analyze pricing data from various sources, manipulate information, and make appropriate recommendations
• Problem Solving: Effectively identify and address pricing-related opportunities
• Peer Relationships: Collaborate and foster positive relationships with cross-functional teams involved in pricing-related activities

Key Functional Skills/Knowledge

• Demonstrated ability to manipulate information from various sources, analyze data, and make appropriate recommendations.
• Strong Excel skillset for data manipulation and analysis.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with internal and external teams
• Proactive and service-oriented mindset to drive continuous improvement in trade processes.
• Integrated marketing or sales functional experience
• Learning Agility: Ability to adapt quickly and apply new learnings quickly

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-10 years of working experience and/or internship experience in a related field
• Four-year college degree
• Experience demonstrating advanced problem-solving and analytical capabilities in a cross-functional team environment

Preferred Qualifications

• CPG experience

Every associate at Mars has responsibility for the achievement of quality and food safety.

As a privately-held, family-owned company, Mars Petcare US offers benefits which reflect our commitment to attracting and retaining great people. This includes excellent pay, competitive health and dental care coverage, a retirement plan, a very competitive vacation plan and unrivalled career advancement opportunities, to name just a few of our unique and generous benefits.
 
If you're looking for a place where you can take ownership for your work, where the pace is fast, the environment is built around the importance of open communication, and where employees are called "associates" and treated as such, then we want to hear from you.
 

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What can you expect from Mars?
Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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