Category Advisor - Walmart

Company and Position Information:

Del Monte Foods (DMFC) 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.

The salary range for this role is:

Responsibilities:

The 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.

This position is located in Rogers, AR.

• 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.

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.

Qualifications:

Required Education and/or Certifications

• BA/BS degree required; MBA preferred.

Years of Experience

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

Skills

• 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 Scintilla, Retail Link, JDA Space Planning, Shelf IQ Microsoft Excel, Nielsen/IRI, Circana and competent in PowerPoint; myPG and Space Automation experience a plus.

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 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.