Director, Category Management - Small Format

Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is looking for a highly motivated, analytically minded professional to lead the Small Format Category Management team.  This role plays a critical role both internally at KDP and with our key retail partners.

The Director plays a strategic role in building a strong partnership across the Drug, Value, and Convenience Retail channels by providing strategic, consultative category guidance to deliver market leading growth for the Keurig Dr Pepper portfolio inclusive of the beverage and snacking categories. This individual will lead a strong team of Category Management associates focusing on delivering high quality analysis to identify insights and turn them into actionable recommendations for our retailer partners.

What you will do:

• Develop and cultivate business relationships with key retailer contacts that establish KDP as their lead partner for category management needs
• Lead a team that delivers fully integrated consumer, shopper, category insights and trends to guide key retailer’s strategic choices enabling market leading growth for the short and long term
• Conduct robust analysis using research, category management capabilities, analytical tools, and data visualization to identify and communicate business opportunities or challenges   
• Collaborate with multiple internal cross-functional teams and the customer to connect business opportunities and develop strategic solutions
• Shape the Category Management team’s ability to conduct best in class planogram and assortment reviews with key retailers
• Serve as the Small Format expert on all things category to cross-functional team members
• Ensure high performance results of your team by:
  • Fostering a culture of trust that prioritizes team and values employee contributions
  • Driving a shared vision with clear goals and accountability to overcome challenges and delivery on objectives
  • Embracing a challenger mindset embedding a culture of curiosity and constant dissatisfaction with the status quo

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• A minimum of 10 years of business experience in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) with a focus on category management, business analytics and/or shopper insights
• Experience interacting with senior level executives at key retailers. Experience with Small Format retailers and Beverage preferred.
• Exceptional communication skills – verbal, written & presentation and follow-through
• Strength in leveraging facts and insights to build compelling stories with actionable recommendations
• Strong track record of leading diverse and successful teams
• Superior drive for results with demonstrated ability to build indispensable, collaborative partnerships with the customer and internal business partners, across functional teams
• Extensive syndicated data knowledge with 1010, IRI, Nielsen, Numerator, and retailer-specific point of sale (POS), etc.
• Advanced proficiency in JDA Space Planning software
• Highly skilled in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint)

Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with a portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partners brands and powerful distribution capabilities to provide a beverage for every need, anytime, anywhere. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it!

Together, we have built a leading beverage company in North America offering hot and cold beverages together at scale. Whatever your area of expertise, at KDP you can be a part of a team that’s proud of its brands, partnerships, innovation, and growth. Will you join us?

We strive to be an employer of choice, providing a culture and opportunities that empower our team of ~29,000 employees to grow and develop. We offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development, while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work.

Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.