Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, Babyganics ® and Ecover ®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet. If you’re into pioneering the future and doing good while doing business, come join us.
The LSB is part of SC Johnson, a family-owned company and leading manufacturer of household cleaning, home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care products, as well as professional products. Originally founded in 1886 and headquartered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., SC Johnson and the Lifestyle Brands division are at work for a better world.
As a Category Leadership Manager, you'll play a critical role in driving growth for Lifestyle Brands, our customers, and the categories in which we compete. Leveraging deep shopper, category, and market insights, you'll uncover opportunities that influence key decisions around assortment, pricing, promotion, merchandising, and shelf strategy.
You'll serve as the lead category thought partner, collaborating cross-functionally to transform data into actionable business recommendations. Beyond supporting customer strategies, you'll bring valuable marketplace learnings back to the organization, helping shape broader commercial decisions and fueling growth across our business. If you're passionate about connecting insights to action and influencing strategy at every level, this is the role for you
ABOUT THE ROLE
To be the recognized expert in our categories and brands at Walmart. This role will:
Provide fact and insight- based solutions that drive growth for category, customer, and the LSB.
Utilize shopper insight, opportunity identification and full understanding of products, assortment, pricing, placement, shelving, promotion, and merchandising to inform our strategy with assigned customers.
Lead as primary insight provider for our categories at the customer that lead to marketplace actions. In this role, you will work closely with internal (SCJ Sales, Brand, Customer Marketing) and external partners.
Provide insights and perspective from customer activities back to the broader organization so that transferable learnings can be leveraged with other customers
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Create and plan category leadership solutions that deliver profitable sales growth for the LSB in the mass and club channels. These solutions should include shopper and category insights across products/ assortment (everyday/ new products/ promoted/ seasonal), placement and everyday shelving and merchandising, pricing (everyday, seasonal, and promotional), promotions and seasonal merchandising
Leverage LSB Category & Shopper Leadership toolbox such as Nielsen RMS & Panel Data, Customer-specific POS & Panel, and other internal/external tools
SCINTILLA Wal*Mart and Madrid (Sam’s Club) will be of particular focus
Partner with Sales and cross-functional teams to develop & deliver compelling insights presentations, business reviews, and growth strategies that advance business outcomes at Walmart and Sam’s Club.
Where appropriate, manage and deliver against the responsibilities of the Category Captaincy/Advisory process in partnership with the customer
Identify specific research opportunities (shopper, consumer, etc.) to bring new learning to category leadership solutions
Assist with HQ lead research projects when appropriate, to provide context that will improve the applicability of results in the mass channel.
Leverage insights and resources through the utilization of a broad range of data sources, market research findings, tools, analyses, and technology to continually bring new shopper ideas to customer and company; incorporate in all category solutions for assigned major customer(s)
Create / Maintain any customer…