Category Advisor - Walmart

Del Monte Foods, Inc. (DMFI) is a multi-national food company headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, with a powerful portfolio of brands, including iconic Del Monte®, Contadina® and College Inn®. Our premium-quality meal ingredients, snacks and beverages can be found in six out of ten U.S. households.

At Del Monte Foods, we believe in supporting one another. In helping our people shape their own careers - in letting them grow outward, upward and across disciplines. We are tending to the greater good, providing accessible, nourishing, great-tasting food for all. We are Del Monte Foods – Growers of Good.

This is a hybrid role (2-3 days/week in office) based at our Rogers, AR office. The salary range for this role is: $103,477.92 - $175,783.92

Responsibilities:

The Manager, Category Advisor - Walmart is responsible for developing category strategic business plans for Walmart and to build category sales volume and profitability and to provide best-in-class category advisory services and thought leadership. This position is also responsible for growing customer categories by using category management principles utilizing customer and marketplace data to develop business building recommendations. Position will engage the customer regularly to understand needs and category requirements to drive category-building initiatives.

Build and maintain a consultative relationship with customer buyers, acting as a trusted resource while working collaboratively to achieve success within category

Leverage data, space management tools, and automation to deliver best-in-class planograms and assess impact on performance

Engage in (often) confidential conversations and planning sessions with the customer regarding protected information, putting the retailers needs and interests above all others.

Demonstrate advanced level capabilities working within the retailer’s proprietary data, by providing customer with actionable fact-based category recommendations across assortment, shelving, and pricing

Proactively identifies and communicates business issues as well as steps to address and resolve problems; identifies insights and recommendations from consumer and shopper behavior and translates implications into retailer action plan to grow sales

Deliver prioritized schematic production schedule to meet customer requests and deadlines

Collaborates with buyers to build assortment and shelving strategies

Lead broader space initiatives across aisle and store

Understand and apply best-practice category management process

Actively engages in educating, coaching, and influencing others across the category insights team, sharing best practices and insights so that successes are broadly adopted and repeated

Takes ownership of self-development, proactively seeking improvement, feedback, and coaching

Act with the utmost fairness when making decisions that are in the best interest of the business

Qualifications:

BA/BS degree required; MBA preferred

3 - 5 years relevant business experience in CPG industry with supplier, retailer or broker.

Proven record of success in retail grocery industry with consumer-packaged goods and food retailing

Strong leadership and interpersonal skills to influence key customer stakeholders

Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as excellent interpersonal skills, analytic and problem solving skills

Strong computer proficiency in Retail Link, JDA Space Planning, Microsoft Excel, Nielsen/IRI and competent in PowerPoint; myPG and Space Automation experience a plus.

Del Monte Foods Leadership Behaviors:

As leaders we:

Ground Our Teams

Connect our teams to a clear strategy.

Provide the support our teams need for success.

Hold ourselves and our teams accountable.

Create the Climate

Solve problems together with our teams.

Enable smart risk taking.

Empower our teams to make decisions and take action.

Nurture the Good

Are intentional about building trust.

Lead with empathy.

Grow and develop our teams.

WE OFFER:

Competitive salary.

Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k).

Please be advised that your application is not complete until you fill out, sign, and submit an Application for Employment for a specific position for which Del Monte Foods, Inc. is actively recruiting. Your application must reflect that you possess the required qualifications for the position.

No sponsorship is available for this position.

No agencies or 3rd party vendors.