Category Manager

at  Groupe Marcelle

Located in Montreal, Quebec, the Canadian company Groupe Marcelle is a leader in the cosmetics industry. With the highest standards of quality and excellence, Groupe Marcelle develops, manufactures, and distributes care and makeup products and accessories with a portfolio of four brands: Marcelle, Watier, Annabelle and CW Beggs and Sons.
At Groupe Marcelle we believe in an environment where passion can be expressed, creative minds lead to exceptional innovation, audacity and focus are a pillar of great success and acts of empowerment, collaboration and humanity are widely encouraged. Because our purpose is to “Cultivate beauty in the world”, we strive to care for you, people and the environment. We are looking for professionals who will exemplify these values and bring energy and commitment to results.
Join a company with more than 300 employees in the cosmetics field and play a key role in the organization.
Groupe Marcelle is currently looking for a Category Manager for a permanent full-tim position.
Reporting to the Commercial Business Manager, the Category Manager is responsible for uncovering and developing market insights to drive short and long-term category stories to feed to the retailers, marketing, and sales teams by identifying category opportunities. The Category Manager develops and analyzes the performance of planograms to drive the overall direction of the brand portfolio strategy. The Category Manager is also responsible for developing key business solutions by gathering, reviewing, and testing data.

• Lead and develop team members.
• Work cross-functionally with sales, marketing and innovation to provide analytical support and business recommendations.
• Present market insights and category opportunities to retailers
• Securing information and resources, build planograms category analysis, acquiring/developing effective software, developing analytic systems, and managing each process along the way.
• Identify, aggregate, and analyze data to communicate market and consumer trends.
• Assess initiatives to identify areas for growth, resolve issues, and increase buy-in.
• Analyze competitors and customers to provide data-driven recommendations.
• Own the Seasonal Planogram category analysis process.
• Provide analytical support for long-term development strategies for product categories.
• Develop exit strategies for unsuccessful products.