Category Manager Target - Wilton Brands LLC - Minneapolis, MN (Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area)

Category Manager Target

Wilton Brands LLC - Minneapolis, MN (Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area)

Job Description

The Category Manager -Captain role is a key leadership position within Category Management at Wilton and is responsible for playing a consultative, insightful role to our internal clients. Internal clients represent corporate management, product development, and marketing. Role will be to assist internal clients to drive and validate business strategy and performance. Key deliverables include overall business performance, seasonal performance, new product opportunities based on market trends, and the success of in-store marketing efforts.

Desired Skills & Experience

Responsibilities:
• Create functional and executable category plans, per the category roles framework
• Improve sales and profitability of Paper Crafing, Photo Album and Bakeware categories for Target organization
• Provide sales reporting, analysis, strategic direction to Target buyers
• Analyze data, price and promotion effectiveness and make decisions based on the data
• Weekly/Monthly Sales Updates
• Analyses of Sales Tests, Promotions, New Lines, Seasonal Items and any additional sidecaps, endcaps, and  promotional space
• Analyses of Sets, PFresh, Space to Sales, Linear, Square Foot, Productivity by Price Point,  Productivity by Theme, Inventory Analysis, Instocks, Case/pack analysis and Forecasting
• Conduct key category management analyses, assortment optimization and space planning
• Determine optimal product mix, set direction, pricing, planogram versions
• Own the POG process and execute POG versions
• Meet with buyer regularly and willing to travel for meetings every 2 weeks
• Flexible with the needs of the Target Buyers

Requirements:

• 3-5 years in category management within CPG industry
• 3 years experience in consumer products working with Target
• Accuracy, extensive Excel work, consumer products and forecasting
• Ability to work with large data and understand the business implications
• Ability to communicate, analyze data, insights and actions
• Experience with database management tools
• Strong Excel skills
• Bachelor degree required
• Domestic travel required – approximately 20%

 
Wilton is an Equal Opportunity Employer EEO-M/F/D/V and encourages Diverse Candidates to Apply.

Company Description

Wilton Brands LLC (“Wilton”) has a portfolio of iconic brands and is the leading supplier in the U.S. Crafts Industry. These brands help families successfully celebrate life’s many occasions, to express their creativity through crafts, to encourage them to share with their families and friends, and to capture their meaningful and lasting memories. Wilton operates through three divisions, Wilton Enterprises, EK Success Brands and Creative Group which are leaders in their categories. More information can be found at www.wilton.com, www.eksuccess.com and www.simplicity.com.