CAS Manager

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Your role at Clorox:

Category Leadership Accelerator (CLA) is a team that represents a transformation of Shopper Insights, Shopper Marketing, Category Leadership, and Space Engineering resources to support Sales plans for the enterprise, national, and regional customers across the Clorox portfolio. With this approach, our goals are to build best-in-class capabilities, develop deep functional expertise, and offer focused programs to drive growth with our customers. The program will help Clorox provide our customers cutting edge data and insights, as well as, personalized solutions to drive incremental growth for both our customers and Clorox.

This role will help partner to develop Strategy and Business Intelligence support on the Clorox Category Leadership team across Charcoal, Water Filtration and Facial Care portfolios. The primary objectives of this role are to drive accelerated growth, market share gains for the customer as well as our brands, and elevated customer partnership via Shopper/Customer Insights.

Key responsibilities include providing shopper and consumer insights support for Kroger and Clorox Joint Business Planning, Internal Initiatives and for discovering new opportunities to drive future business growth.

Role will report to Category Team Lead for Kroger which will than role up to the Clorox Leading Edge Retailer (LER) group

In this role, you will:

The CAS Manager will be a driver of category insights for our Kroger sales team. This will require developing creative ways to answer questions in a data-rich environment. We are seeking a resourceful person that can proactively turn insights from multiple sources into actionable results at retail.

This person should be skilled at working in a heavily matrixed environment, capable of influencing leaders both internally and externally, and have comfort in proactively bringing solutions to their teams.

Leveraging data and insights is key to driving this growth and the CAS Manager position on the Kroger team focuses on putting the customer first in our decision making processes.

What we look for:

Experience

• 4+years of CPG experience
• MUST have Kroger customer experience and / or experience working within Category Management.
• Demonstrate knowledge of customer, data, systems, and ability to analyze information and trends to make recommendations: 2+ years’ experience
• Sales/Category Management Background: 2+ years’ experience
• Large key account management experience
• Data analysis background required
• Creative problem-solving skills and critical thinking
• Consultative/Solution selling
• Ability to manage several bodies of work concurrently

Job Responsibilities

• Work across a variety of teams to help lead Clorox and Kroger Charcoal, Water Filtration and Facial care big bets that will drive growth for both parties
• Stay up to date on industry trends and competitive activity to identify opportunities to improve capabilities/advantage in the market
• Provide "Shopper First" Insights and Solutions that drive category growth, market share expansion and financial plan success
• Strategic planning, post promo analysis (PPA), category assessment, market analysis and scorecarding
• Improve shelf position for brands while maintaining a shopper/category first approach
• Be an expert on Category Leadership tools and capabilities
• Master customer loyalty card data
• Lead category strategy and review meetings with customers; assist brand-based, Category Leadership programs
• Develop strong working relationships with external Category Manager/Merchants
• Perform other duties as necessary

Workplace type:

This role will prioritize the ability to be in the office 3x per week - Hybrid 2.0 - if within 50 miles of a Clorox Hub. Open to remote work for qualified candidates.

We seek out and celebrate diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re looking for fresh perspectives, a desire to bring your best, and a non-stop drive to keep growing and learning.

At Clorox, we have a Culture of Inclusion. We believe our values-based culture connects to our purpose and helps our people be the best versions of themselves, professionally and personally. This means building a workplace where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate in our Clorox community. Learn more about our I&D program & initiatives here.

[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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