Senior Manager – Category And Innovation - Own Brands
CurrentResponsible for developing and driving short and long-term strategies for 30 assigned categories (Dry beverages, baking, canned veg/fruit/fish, and shelf stable juice). Manage business performance by growing profitable sales and market share, leveraging data to influence key stakeholders, and activating consumer insights to recommend and commercialize innovation. Developed a 3-year innovation roadmap and category strategy template for top performing owned categories (coffee and baking).Leverage shopper, category, and market trend data to inform strategic and actionable recommendations to cross-departmental leadership during monthly and quarterly business reviews. Manage 30+ projects from ideation and commercialization to implementation and verification. Successfully launched 35 new proprietary products in June 2024.Manage, coach and develop two direct reports to drive respective owned categories and support company initiatives.