Sr. SRM Category Manager, Wet Dog

Principal Accountabilities

Manage Wet Dog category pricing
Lead development of shelf back pricing architecture and strategy
Develop long term vision for omni channel trade, pricing, and promotional architecture
Manage key stakeholder groups throughout the organization to align with SRM agenda
Co-pilot development of customer mix strategy with sales leadership
Create and manage the US pet nutrition SKU assortment architecture
Lead annual SRM category reviews with business management teams to surface opportunities across price, products and mix for the enterprise
Develop annual price and investment strategy to maximize enterprise profitability
Product owner for digital SRM toolkit responsible for maintenance and enhancement of tools leveraged across broader SRM team
Leverage advanced analytics to drive step change in US pet nutrition portfolio innovation and advance the SRM digital toolkit

Technical & Functional Skills

• Possess strong technical and analytical skills
• Customer Focus: Understand customer needs and align margin strategies
• Leveraging Insights to Action: Translate pricing insights into actionable recommendations for the marketing teams and the enterprise
• Drive for Results: Demonstrate a strong commitment to achieving goals and objectives

Critical Mars Leadership Capabilities

• Analytical Acumen: Ability to analyze pricing data from various sources, manipulate information, and make appropriate recommendations
• Problem Solving: Effectively identify and address pricing-related opportunities
• Peer Relationships: Collaborate and foster positive relationships with cross-functional teams involved in pricing-related activities

Key Supporting Competencies

• Problem Solving: Effectively identify and address pricing-related opportunities
• Peer Relationships: Collaborate and foster positive relationships with cross-functional teams involved in pricing-related activities

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-10 years of working experience and/or internship experience in a related field
• Four-year college degree
• Experience demonstrating advanced problem-solving and analytical capabilities in a cross-functional team environment

Preferred Qualifications

• CPG experience

Benefits

Every associate at Mars has responsibility for the achievement of quality and food safety. As a privately-held, family-owned company, Mars Petcare US offers benefits which reflect our commitment to attracting and retaining great people. This includes excellent pay, competitive health and dental care coverage, a retirement plan, a very competitive vacation plan and unrivalled career advancement opportunities, to name just a few of our unique and generous benefits.

About the Role

If you're looking for a place where you can take ownership for your work, where the pace is fast, the environment is built around the importance of open communication, and where employees are called "associates" and treated as such, then we want to hear from you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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