Title:  Senior Manager, Portfolio Development

Advance your career as a Senior Manager, Portfolio Development supporting the Salty, Portable Wholesome Snacks and Frozen categories. In this role, you will translate shopper insights and category strategy into curated retailer selling stories. This position can be based in Chicago, IL or Battle Creek, MI on a hybrid basis.   

You’ll utilize your expertise and become an indispensable partner to our customers and teams. Moreover, you’ll have the chance to cultivate cross-functional partnerships to enhance your career growth.

A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing  

• Category Strategy – Refine category strategy, shelving, and assortment initiatives to achieve sales goals. Additionally, promote Kellanova’s Category Management best practices within account teams and drive portfolio distribution objectives, including tracking and monthly reporting.
• Business Analytics – Proactively identify opportunities, connect insights across the organization, and leverage business intelligence tools to uncover key category insights. Additionally, create fact-based selling tools and presentations for the Kellanova portfolio, driving net sales and market share growth.
• Customer Focus – Gain credibility by understanding customer priorities and leveraging insights. Influence decision-makers using data, relationships, and insights to drive category growth. Expand the reach of retailer loyalty data beyond account teams, integrating it into national selling stories when appropriate.
• Insights– Leverage existing data and insights to create compelling customer-facing solutions and collaborate with the insights team to commission targeted consumer and shopper research.

We’re Looking for Someone With 

• Significant CPG industry experience with Category Management or Shopper Insights
• Strong knowledge of Category Management practices
• Effective communicator of complex and/or detailed information to multiple audiences with differing knowledge levels, both in writing and verbally
• Ability to draw conclusions, address key opportunities, and understand and apply market research tools to create selling stories, along with experience negotiating and influencing large groups or high-level constituents internally and externally
• Experience using insights to build category strategy to increase distribution
• Proficiency working in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Proficiency in using syndicated data (i.e. Nielsen, Circana), and retailer specific loyalty card data, shopper panel metrics and space planning software. (JDA, Apollo or Spaceman)

Compensation  

The annual salary range is $145,400-$181,700 which is based on various factors such as location, experience and skill. Discretionary bonuses based on company and individual performance are also available.

Get to Know Us

At Kellanova, we are driven by our vision to be the world’s best-performing snacks-led powerhouse, unleashing the full potential of our differentiated brands and our passionate people. Our portfolio of iconic, world-class brands include Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, MorningStar Farms, Special K, Krave, Zucaritas, Tresor, Crunchy Nut, among others.

Kellanova’s Culture of Best means we bring our best to all that we do in pursuit of our vision to be the world’s best performing snacks-led powerhouse. Our culture celebrates boldness and empowers our people to challenge the status quo, achieve results, and win together.

Our focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) enables us to build a culture of belonging where all employees have a place at the table and are inspired to share their passion, talents and ideas to work.

Mars has agreed to acquire Kellanova in a combination that will shape the future of snacking! The transaction is anticipated to close towards the end of 2025 (subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals). The companies remain separate until closing. 

You can learn more at www.futureofsnacking.com, and our hiring teams will be happy to discuss further questions if your application advances in the hiring process.

The best brands. The best people. The best you.

Kellanova is an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to provide an inclusive work environment, a seat for everyone at the table, and embraces the diverse talent of its people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding our efforts to advance Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, please visit our website here.