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Our team members receive industry-competitive salaries and are eligible for great benefits packages:

Competitive Pay: $78,500 - $116,600 annually

Annual Bonus Earning Potential

Comprehensive Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits and More

Education benefits available to full and part-time Smithfield team members on their first day of employment.

Open to moving? We will help! Ask about our Relocation Assistance packages! In addition, we offer opportunities for career growth, professional development, and tuition assistance As a Marketing Team member, you would assist in leveraging data metrics to develop methods to strategically maximize the profitability of a specific brand category in our business. In representing Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan's Famous, or any of our brands, you will collaborate cross-functionally across the company from our sales team to our business management operations to deliver the best product to our customers and consumers.

The Category Manager is a valued resource to our retailers by facilitating growth in Fresh, Packaged, and Deli Meat Categories. This role will analyze consumer, category, customer, and market data in order to build sound business recommendations and is known for high-quality presentations. Focused on identifying and further developing mutually beneficial opportunities that support both Smithfield brand growth and retailer category growth by working closely with Smithfield's Sales and Marketing teams and our retailer partners. This will be done by having mastered our Retailers' data systems and the ability to marry various third-party data sources (IRI, Dunnhumby, Spectrum and Spectra for example) to uncover opportunities and insights and to leverage fact-based information to win in the marketplace. The Category Manager is able to develop both tactics and strategies instead of just following what has been established for them. This person is viewed as the Category Expert by our Senior Leaders and Retailers from conducting first-hand analysis of internal Retailer Sales and Consumer information to provide fact based winning assortment, shelving (which may include managing space planning projects), pricing and promotion recommendations and the subsequent score carding of business results. The Category Manager will be a day-to-day point of contact for our Senior Leaders at Smithfield and interface with the customer (Buyers to Senior Management) to represent our company, so it is imperative that this person have a very likeable communication style (even under the stresses of mounting projects and timelines) and actively promote teamwork competencies to represent Smithfield in the best possible light at all times. Core Responsibilities Syndicated Data Research, Analysis, and Reporting

Responsible for customization, reporting and analysis of category information for assigned customer(s).

Acts as an expert on utilizing and leveraging syndicated databases to include customer-specific data warehouse information and loyalty card analysis (e.g., IRI, Fresh Facts, Panel, Customer Specific, etc).

Researches/integrates data from various sources to identify market opportunities and creates insights.

Strategic and Tactical Execution

Recommends strategic/tactical elements of Category Business Plans to Sales Teams and Customers.

Develops customer-specific insights & recommendations by reviewing analytics, turns insights into action and drives winning sales recommen