Category Manager, Beverage

Who We Are:

Nutrabolt is a fast-growing, global active health and wellness company with a portfolio of market leading performance-oriented brands that energize and fuel active lifestyles. The company’s disruptive and innovative products compete in the Functional Beverage and Active Nutrition segments, under three consumer-loved brands: C4® (one of the fastest-growing energy drink brands in the United States and the #1 selling global pre-workout brand), XTEND® (the #1 post-workout recovery brand in the United States), and Cellucor® (an award-winning sports nutrition brand created in 2002).

Since its founding 20 years ago, Nutrabolt has set out to meet the discerning needs of performance athletes and fitness enthusiasts, while appealing beyond this core group to include consumers around the globe who are making healthy, active living a daily priority.

As a Certified Great Place to Work, Top Workplaces USA honoree, Fortune Best Workplace in Texas, and more – Nutrabolt cares deeply about our people, planet, and the communities we serve. Here, our teammates are united by our mission, and take ownership in creating a healthy workplace environment that promotes strong bodies, clear minds, and a culture of respect and belonging for all.

 

Note to applicants: This role is located in Austin, TX. 

Who You Are: As a Nutrabolt Category Manager, you will support our commercial efforts and work cross-functionally to connect strategy to sales and innovation. You will own analyses related to fact-based selling and space allocation at key accounts with a focus on the 7-eleven and the convenience channel. You will incorporate shopper and consumer insights to help us enhance our positioning within the market and stand out against our competitors.

This role is eligible to participate in our Sales Bonus Plan.

What You're Good At: 

• Build comprehensive knowledge of the products, attributes, strategies, tactics, and competitive trends in the marketplace for the Energy Drink category
• Pull and organize data to create impactful analysis from resources such as IRI, Nielsen, Stackline, Numerator and other data assets
• Build and analyze shelf planograms with JDA/EZ POG and other merchandising soft
• Oversee development and execution of assortment/merchandising optimization, new product introductions, seasonal programs, and pricing/promotional planning/evaluation
• Act as Key Liaison to manage syndicated data providers and maintain database integrity
• Use data to derive insights and tell stories; going beyond collecting data or surfacing issues to discovering the insight or solution and taking action
• Study take-rate, unit lift, share gains and break-even analyses related to varied promotional activity.
• Build reports and present data for internal executive level reviews, sales pitches, and national sales meetings
• Execute quick turnaround requests from the sales team around information such as brand and SKU performance by market / region / customer Build rapport with key c-store customers and partner to model multi-year account development plans
• Ability to present clear and concise category updates and information during customer facing meetings
• Act as a category expert by staying on top of market research, trends, category insights, and competitor performance

What You Contribute: 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in business or analytics
• 4-5 years’ experience in fact-based selling or CPG Analytics
• 4+ years with hands-on experience working with IRI, Nielsen, SPINS or other Point-of-sale data
• Expert/Mastery of Microsoft Excel
• Experience with JDA/Blue Yonder or equivalent space planning software preferred
• Strong skills in Microsoft Word, and Power Point
• Familiarity with CPG metrics (ACV, TPD, Velocity)
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly analytical
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of beverage category management concepts and analysis

In this position your goals and KPI's will be focused around: 

• Category Share
• Household Penetration
• Total Sales

Why Nutrabolt?

Wellness Benefits

Nutrabolt cares about our teammates’ physical, mental, and financial wellness by providing benefits like: competitive health insurance, life insurance, mental wellness programs, 401K matching, and a Lifestyle Spending Account.

Lifestyle Perks

We offer unlimited vacation paid time off and volunteer time off. You’ll get discounts on C4 Energy, Cellucor, and XTEND products, too!

Family Support 

We want you to reach your full potential at work by taking care of all loved ones at home. We provide paid parental leave, in addition to reimbursement for expenses related to childcare, fertility treatments, legal fees, and more through our Lifestyle Spending Account.

Employment Type: Full-time 

Work Environment: Typical office environment or remote home working environment

 

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