Customer Category Manager

Internal Management & Management Support Applicants:

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Relocation Assistance Eligible:

Yes

Referral Payout Eligible:

No

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Management Level:

P4

Role Summary:

Tyson Foods is looking for a Customer Category Manager to serve as the Category Advisor for one of our strategic retailers across our Refrigerated portfolio. This role leads category strategy and delivers data-driven insights, providing independent guidance to the customer to drive profitable growth for both the retailer and Tyson’s portfolio of top performing brands.

This role will require travel to the customer and internal meetings.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to our strategic retailer partners for category management needs at the national and divisional level  
• Analyze category, shopper, and competitive data utilizing syndicated data (IRI/NielsenIQ) to identify growth opportunities and inform category strategies
• Develop and deliver actionable insights that influence assortment, pricing, promotion, and shelving decisions leveraging data from multiple sources
• Translate complex data into clear, compelling recommendations for both internal teams and customer partners
• Lead customer-facing presentations, line reviews, and business updates to drive alignment and growth initiatives with cross-functional partners
• Provide ongoing reporting and scorecards to our strategic retailer partners and Tyson sales team members to monitor key goals (KPIs) and initiatives

• Play a part in driving Tyson’s Category Management & Analytics team performance, development, and impact through socialization of best practices and perspective with team members in formal and informal forums.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Data Analytics or related field
• 5+ years in Category Management supporting grocery or mass retailers
• Experience with fast-moving CPG brands or grocery industry
• Technical skills in Excel and PowerPoint. Power BI and Power Query a plus.
• Exceptional communication skills – verbal, written and presentation.
• Willingness to travel 10-25% of the time for customer meetings and internal meetings (varies based on location relative to customer).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience as a Category Advisor or Category Captain
• Advanced technical skills to handle the complexities of a strategic retailer with national and divisional level requests
• Strong storytelling skills – ability to tell the story with the data in a digestible way
• Positive, proactive, agile and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Role Impact:

This role plays a critical part in shaping category strategy with our strategic retailers by bridging insights with execution—driving wins for the customer, the shopper, and the business. Success is measured by the ability to influence decisions, strengthen partnerships, and deliver tangible category growth.

Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)$102,000.00 - $170,000.00YesNo

For Professional Management levels, internal applicants should either upload a resume to their application OR complete their application fully showing current and past work experience in the sections provided.

Any listed amounts represent the base pay range. Additional compensation may be available for this position based on various factors such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonuses. Pay is just one part of Tyson’s total compensation package.

 

Tyson will develop an offer based on a candidate's or team member’s relevant skills and capabilities, the market data for the role described in this requisition, internal equity, and other information relevant to the candidate and role.

The successful candidate(s) must be willing and able to perform the physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Tyson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.

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