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Category Planning Manager, US CondimentsUnilever · Hoboken US HQ
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Category Planning Manager, US Condiments

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🗓️ Posted 2026-09-16 Hoboken US HQ Hybrid Marketing Communications
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 7,500 GBP–12,500 GBP/mo

About the Company

At Unilever, we believe passionately in a purpose-driven business. And our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace. Working at Unilever as a Category Planning Manager means you are joining a world-class Category Strategy & Planning organization that oversees category strategy, category and shopper insights, commercial planning, and shopper marketing expertise in our US Nutrition business unit. US Nutrition manifesto is to make affordable Nutrition accessible to the many with purpose led brands such as Hellmann's, Knorr, Sir Kensington, and Maille. For our part at Unilever, we commit to providing you with experiences that allow you to become a world-class marketer, to bring your purpose to life at work, and provide you the growth opportunities you need for long-term career success. With amazing benefits and a state-of-the-art newly remodeled headquarters, you will have the support you need to bring your whole self to work each and every day, to thrive, to drive your business to thrive, and to work on projects that excite you.

About the Role

The Category Planning Manager, US Condiments, will be the voice of the customer and the shopper within the US Condiments cross-functional business team ensuring channel and customer insights are incorporated in developing short and long term brand and customer commercial plans that coincides with retailers' strategies.

Responsibilities

  • ● The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to have a strong background in data and analytics and enjoys diving deep into large data sets.
  • ● The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to translate data into insights and insights into action by crafting commercial plans that execute against the Category Growth Strategy across Category Value Drivers.
  • ● The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to partner in S&OP to gather key demand-driving inputs from customer and brand teams, ensuring US Condiments has the appropriate demand forecast to support in-market activity.
  • ● The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to craft channel and customer trade budgets and annual growth targets that ladder up to US Condiments P&L delivery and meet top- and bottom-line financial KPIs.
  • ● The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to dive deep into channel pricing, distribution gaps, competitive analysis, trade optimization, promotional analysis, and shopper insights to build commercial plans.
  • ● The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to build key Category and Brand Commercial planning inputs, including digital and omnichannel, across Integrated Business Planning and Joint Business Planning with customers such as Walmart, Target, Kroger, Albertsons, Amazon, and Ahold.
  • ● The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to develop customer-facing category strategy with key business partners to translate and localize category strategy into channel and category marketing plans across multiple channels and customers.
  • ● The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to set and deploy channel strategy for the category and holistic customer investment across customers to deliver profitable growth.

Requirements

  • ● Bachelor's degree required.
  • ● MBA preferred.
  • ● 5+ years (7+ preferred) of experience in Customer Development, Account Management, Trade Marketing, Category Strategy, and/or Brand Marketing Operations within the consumer goods industry.
  • ● Results-driven, with an ownership mindset to achieve.

Benefits

  • ● Amazing benefits.
  • ● State-of-the-art newly remodeled headquarters.