Title: Sales Strategy Manager
Join Kellanova Canada as a Contract Sales Strategy Manager. In this role you will use your strategic thinking skills to represent our brand to some of the world’s most respected and recognized retail operations. You’ll have a passion for collaboration and a vision for success as an important member of a cross-functional commercial team. This is a hybrid, 12-month contract role based out of our Canada Head Office in Mississauga.
Within this opportunity, you’ll utilize your expertise in Canadian trade and consumer packaged goods to work across multiple functions, developing sales strategies, ensuring flawless execution, and monitoring performance of assortment, merchandising, pricing, shelving, and promotional initiatives.
A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing
- Performing Analytics – Proactively track and analyze business and brand results on a national, regional, and customer basis. You’ll handle bringing data to life to make our well-loved brands even stronger!
- Collaborating for Success – Work alongside our marketing, shopper, and finance teams, providing perspective and identifying solutions to our business and brand opportunities in the marketplace. Leveraging the category management and shopper insights team, you’ll identify and analyze pricing, distribution, and other category and brand opportunities at the banner and region level.
- Providing Key Insights – Evaluate the performance of multiple product launches, and other initiatives. Your effective communication skills will ensure the results are well-understood among internal and external stakeholders.
- Merchandise Strategy – Lead merchandising strategy including development and changes to display vehicles to maximize store points of interruption, profit, and enable retailer opportunities presented by sales account team.
We’re Looking for Someone With
- Post-Secondary Education with focus on business and/or high school diploma with related work experience.
- The position requires the individual to possess a strong understanding of Sales from the field level to Customer Head Office level. Individual must have a comprehensive understanding of the trade and current trade philosophies and corporate objectives so that meaningful and effective programs can be put in place.
- Strong technology skills of PC applications including MS Office.
- Experience within the consumer-packaged goods industry managing multiple key customers.
- Proven experience managing customer accounts.
What’s Next
After you apply, your application will be reviewed by a real recruiter, so it may take us a few weeks to get back with you by email or phone. Visit our How We Hire page to get insights into our hiring process and more about what we offer.
Need assistance throughout the application or hiring process? Email USA.Recruitment@Kellanova.com
If you join our team, you’ll be rewarded for the difference you make. Our comprehensive benefits offer you the support you need through your life events, big or small. Visit our benefits page & be sure to ask your recruiter for more specific information.
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, 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 within the first half of 2025 (subject to Kellanova shareowner approval and other 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.
Let’s shape the future of snacking.
Kellanova Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer who strives to provide an inclusive work environment that involves everyone and embraces the diverse talent of its people. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants.