Associate Category Manager, Category Growth

Strategic Category Growth Initiatives

Responsible for the development and execution of strategic category growth initiatives that meet the goals and strategies for Baskin-Robbins U.S.

Responsibilities :

Responsible for product innovation across categories :

• Use multi-lens insights to generate and prioritize new menu items.
• Work with Culinary Innovation and Category Management to build innovation pipeline with viable products and platform ideas to support category initiatives to deliver brand growth.
• Author Culinary Briefs, Concepts for Screeners or Research and leads collaboration for the development of new products and platforms for all BR categories.
• Team lead or key point of contact for product testing, work with internal and external teams (Culinary, Category Management, Insights, Supply Chain, Commercialization, Operations, Finance, Vendors) to vet and test products and platforms, including refinements.
• Develop and sell in business cases with program summaries and plans to internal and external teams.
• Collaborates with Category Management in any new product or platform launches through seamless handoffs and sharing of insights.

Support existing platform priorities, including manufactured cakes :

Lead whitespace innovation :

Requirements :

Salary : $79,953.75 - $106,605.00 per year. The salary range above represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual placement within this range will vary based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, training, and location.

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin', Jimmy John's, and SONIC restaurants worldwide. We're made up of some of the world's most iconic restaurant brands, but we're much more than just a restaurant company. We're a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a stapleit's an experience. At Inspire, that's our purpose : to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.