Senior Category Manager (CPG)

Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Salary: $95,000–$135,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops intelligent lighting, smart home automation, and connected home products through its hirify.global and GE Lighting brands.

What you will do

• Develop category management strategies across Food, Mass, Club, E-commerce, and Dollar retail channels.
• Analyze consumer behavior, market trends, syndicated POS and panel data to identify growth opportunities.
• Optimize assortment, pricing, promotions, distribution, merchandising, and planograms using JDA Space Planning and Blue Yonder.
• Maintain the Space Planning platform, library, product data, images, dimensions, fixtures, and planning files.
• Lead category reviews, line reviews, seasonal analyses, retailer presentations, and strategic business recommendations.
• Build dashboards, scorecards, recurring reports, forecasts, and performance updates while partnering with Sales, Marketing, Insights, Product Management, and Supply Chain.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
• 5–7 years of experience in Category Management, Category Leadership, Shopper Insights, Sales Analytics, or a related area.
• Experience supporting or managing Food, Dollar, Club, E-commerce, and/or Mass retail channels.
• Advanced proficiency with syndicated data platforms such as NielsenIQ and with JDA Space Planning, including planogram development and library management.
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, data visualization, sales and marketing development, and complex ad-hoc data analysis skills.
• Strong presentation, storytelling, relationship management, and multitasking abilities; willingness to travel for customer meetings and events.

Nice to have

• Experience in CPG environments and customer-facing category management initiatives.
• Expertise in assortment optimization, shelf strategy, pricing, promotion analytics, and retailer category reviews.
• Familiarity with retailer-specific data platforms and loyalty datasets.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct-hire position with full benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance, plus FSA/HSA options.
• 12 paid holidays and a permissive time-off policy.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Reimbursement for preapproved reasonable and necessary business expenses.