Category Advisor

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.

This is a hybrid (2-3 days in office) role based in our Rogers, AR Sales office. The salary range for this role is : $108,981.65 - $185,133.43

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.

• 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 :

Required Education and / or Certifications

Years of Experience

Skills

Del Monte Foods Leadership Behaviors :

As leaders we :

Ground Our Teams

Create the Climate

Nurture the Good

WE OFFER :

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.