Senior Category Manager - Starbucks Partnership

Purchase, New York

Sales

This role is national in scope and supports both the North American Coffee Partnership (NACP) leadership team for critical decision making and the internal sales team for fact-based selling. The Senior Category Manager works closely with the NACP GM and leadership team across functions to analyze the business, identify competitive threats and maximize market opportunities.The Senior Category Manager will help develop internal communication materials (e.g. Joint Ventures board decks) as well as make ongoing recommendations to the leadership team and internal sales team to capture customer and market opportunities.This person must build the category story to sell Starbucks innovation and base platforms. The Senior Category Manager also works closely with the PBC strategy team to influence Merchandising Standards and the critical Must Carry SKU list.This is a complex role with many stakeholders both internally and externally, interacting with multiple brand platforms, customer teams, Seattle, Somers and the NACP leadership team in real time.

Qualifications:

• 5 Years of CPG experience
• Bachelor's Degree
• Savvy user of IRI and Star
• 5+ years' Category Manager/Insights background
• Must be willing and able to travel 20% of the time

Job Ref: 40659BR Apply