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Job Description:

Job Description

• Category expert with deep knowledge of product, competition, and key market trends for each identified category
• Provides overall category expertise to support portfolio positioning, capabilities, and growth. Ensure that 3M portfolios are relevant and prominent as part of category plans.
• Sets category strategy with channel specific execution plans to drive growth with targeted portfolios, programs and campaigns.
• Area selling organizations link to the businesses (including brands, products, NPI, priorities) based on CATEGORY priorities.
• Actively monitor trends/innovations relating to the focus categories and integrates into plans to maintain relevance and stay competitive.
• Communicates category (segment, portfolio, new product) strategies to channel& shopper teams . Be the voice of area customer & portfolio needs back to the portfolio teams.
• Analyzes category research to bring forth comprehensive insights and tell the story about the state of the category to key internal and external stakeholders.
• Makes data driven recommendations to drive growth - reporting on category metrics important to the channel partners
• Ensure customers have the right assortment instore and online – supporting category strategy and driving influential mix.
• Ensuring category demand plans are complete & accurate (includes allocation execution)
• Guiding portfolio direction for channel / acct specific sku's (club, mass, grocery, private label)
• Oversee development of category line review plans & JBP’s for targeted portfolios in partnership with sales / shopper organizations
• Communicating category pricing strategy & executing defined channel plans.
• Shared Accountabilities
• Portfolio, Segment, and Shopper marketers – segment and portfolio growth priorities .
• End to End teams – insights on campaign and program performance
• Category Expertise – bringing insights / strategies to selling organization, portfolio & shopper marketing.
• Demand plan accuracy in partnership with S&OP Demand

Qualifications for success

• Channel / Category experience.
• Sales & Marketing experience / partnership.
• Ability to develop strategy and guide others to implement communicated strategy
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong Collaboration skills enabling program execution including presentation skills.
• Prioritization and ability to make decisions for areas of responsibility.
• Data led storytelling for both internal and external stakeholders
• Known team player and contributor
• Understanding of 3M businesses, technologies, and culture

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