# Category Development Manager

**Company**: Red Bull
**Location**: Chicago, Illinois
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,000 - 138,000 + cash incentives
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Beverage

**Apply**: https://jobs.redbull.com/us-en/category-development-manager-ref33032l?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

The Category Development Manager supports the Sr Director Category Development in building consumer and customer focused strategies, tactics, and category grounded solutions.

**Areas of Responsibility:**

- Develop and cultivate business relationships with external retailer contacts to establish RBNA as the indispensable partner for all category management needs.

- Build comprehensive knowledge of products, attributes, strategies, tactics, and competitive trends in the marketplace for assigned categories online and offline.

- Oversee development and execution of online and offline assortment/merchandising optimization, new product introductions, seasonal programs, and pricing/promotional planning/evaluation.

- Leverage data from multiple sources to create impactful analytics and selling stories to identify risks, opportunities, and performance gaps.

- Employ critical thinking and problem solving skills to recognize and anticipate issues and opportunities.

- Work effectively with Sales, Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Shopper & Consumer Insights, Brand, eCommerce, and other Category Leadership resources.

- Guide execution of Red Bull Category Management resources to provide solutions that establish strategic plans for assigned Customer Teams and Red Bull Business Units.

- Implement Category development programs by leading the dialogue with Retailers to focus on Category growth opportunities.

- Facilitate the customer business planning process by integrating with overall strategic business goals.

- Turn insights into actions by executing, analyzing, and evaluating Category plans and identifying key opportunities for Red Bull and our retailers to capitalize on.

- Present Red Bull’s Category credentials to key Retailers in a compelling manner.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Analytics, or a related field preferred.

- 3-5 years of experience in consumer goods, retail, category management, sales analytics, shopper insights, or syndicated data.

- Experience with Food Service and/or On Premise channels preferred.

- Strong analytical skills with experience leveraging syndicated, POS, panel, and retailer data to drive growth and business performance.

- Ability to translate complex data into clear insights, recommendations, and compelling stories.

- Proven ability to build collaborative partnerships across customers, teams, and business functions.

- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

- Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, and project management skills.

- Knowledge of retail merchandising and in-store execution strategies.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- CPCM certification and/or Master’s degree

- Experience in sales or analytical sales support, including customer-facing engagement

- Experience working with third-party agencies (brokers, data/insight providers)

- Beverage/DSD experience

- Experience with analytical tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, SQL, Alteryx, ProSpace)

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Plans

- 401k Match

- Family Leave

- PTO & Paid Holiday Schedule

- Pet, Legal, and Life Insurance

- Tuition Reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- analytical skills
- communication skills
- project management skills
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Word

### Nice to have
- CPCM certification
- Master’s degree
- Tableau
- Power BI
- SQL
- Alteryx
- ProSpace

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