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The Mass Channel Category Manager owns the category perspective and guidance for Walmart and Target. Job responsibilities include applying custom insights, assessing market and retailer trends, analyzing custom data sets, and identifying key opportunities for the purpose of maximizing category volume and share. The Mass Channel Category Manager is also responsible for adapting the category vision and merchandising vision to Walmart and Target strategies and identifying opportunities for activation based on internal sales data, syndicated data, panel data, and customer-specific POS. This role works directly with field sales teams to shape sales strategies based on category trends and insights.

Customer Category Management

• Leads activation of customer-specific Category Vision opportunities including Merchandising, Assortment, Promotion and Shelving solutions
• Leads Customer Category Reviews and Assessments
• Shares customer-specific insights to support internal and external initiatives
• Provides a deep understanding of supported retailer strategies, initiatives, and performance
• Participates and develops material for Top-to-Top meetings with key customers
• Actively participates in retailer calls

Customer & Customer Team Engagement

• Actively participates with Sales on supported customer calls and solution / initiative development to drive the Category & GCC business
• Shares retailer and sales team learnings with internal partners such as marketing, customer marketing and R&D

Internal Business Support Management

• Creates fact-based presentations to support national initiatives, such as:
  • New item launches
  • Promotional effectiveness
  • Display expansion
• Assists and attends customer presentations by providing data and analysis, examples are:
  • Top to Top presentations
  • Schematic/Assortment recommendations
• Provides input into customer long-term business strategy