Senior Manager Category Insights
CurrentResponsible for delivering thoughtful brand insights supporting the cross functional teams of Category Strategic Advisory (Category Management), National Retail Sales, Brand, and Commercialization for Smartwater, AHA, Dasani and Powerade.• Leveraging category, consumer, shopper, and marketplace intelligence, I deliver business critical insights that support brand and commercial initiatives for the $22B hydration category• Lead Hydration Category Insights for the development of annual Water and Sports Drinks category overviews in order to assist both internal strategy and planning as well as retailer insight • Utilize a deep understanding of storyboarding, analytics, and commercialization to partner with key stakeholders in order to develop clear and impactful selling solutions for annual new entry initiatives• Developed an internal tool to deliver insight to Retailer and Commercial partners targeting SKUs for discontinuation to support planogram space opportunities.• Host monthly online forums to present latest marketplace trends and opportunities to support national selling efforts. Create support content in the form PowerPoint presentations, podcasts and videos• Collaborate with third party data partners (Kantar and Nielsen) to update category market structures• Developed a test with Nielsen to validate new and insightful water beverage aisle concepts of the future