Category Manager, Small Format

OLIPOP is searching for a Category Manager to join our team and drive high impact in category management across our small format channels of business. This position focuses on data and analytics to evaluate performance and inform/support the sales team in identifying trends, celebrating success and exposing areas of opportunity. In this role you will help lead the charge in analyzing data, building category narratives, and delivering high impact metrics to help drive category leadership for the OLIPOP brand. If you're looking for a fast paced environment, an opportunity for personal growth and responsibility, and enjoy having fun along the way, then this is a role you'll thrive in! RESPONSIBILITIES: Investigate overall market trends and conduct detailed analyses to develop key insights about the business in various channels and in different geographies. This role will primarily support the small format Key Account Team within the channels of convenience, drug, military, & foodservice. Serve as the data expert for our sales team; manage and prioritize incoming requests; use data to better understand our customers, identify trends and proactively suggest improvements. Gather, organize, and analyze our data and translate results into dashboards that are actionable and digestible by all teams. Determine the positioning of a product category to maximize assortment & space. Lead the development of customer specific category insights presentations and present to key retail customers and distributors alongside your sales team leads. Support the Commercial Planning team with specific insights tied to the broader commercial vision and growth of the organization. Research trends, discrepancies, & insights that and bring ideas for trade spend, space planning, & category narrative improvement/efficiencies. Educate sales team counterparts on how to interpret data within reports and arrive quickly at key takeaways and action items. Continually evaluate best practices and explore new approaches and tools to enhance our overall analytics strategy.

OLIPOP was founded in 2017 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester. Ben and David have been working together for nearly a decade to find accessible solutions to bring the benefits of digestive health to as many consumers as possible. OLIPOP is a deliciously refreshing tonic that is crafted with prebiotics, botanicals, and natural plant fiber to support your microbiome and benefit digestive health. We're on a mission to provide an affordable, delicious alternative to soda that delivers leading-edge health benefits to mainstream consumers. At Olipop our values lead the way we create our products, engage with each other, and interact with our community. While we're invested in our product, we're equally invested in personal development. We're tightly knit, we're genuine and we're always pushing the envelope to do a better job than we did the day before. Our team is also fully remote, requiring us to be resourceful, creative and collaborative to support our fast-moving business. To best serve our diverse community of customers, we also seek to recruit and include people with a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and cultures.