Category Manager
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Req #3588
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products. We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world. Our products include seasoning blends, dry mixes, coating systems, dough blends, crumbs, flavors, sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers. While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world's best-known companies.
Position:Category Manager
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Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León
Summary:
- The primary purpose and function are centered around managing and growing a specific product category within the food industry, ensuring profitability, meeting consumer needs, and supporting the overall business objectives of the company.
Major duties & Responsibilities:
- The Role is primarily responsible for driving the success and growth of a product category through strategic planning, financial management, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration. Their role includes overseeing the product portfolio, managing the P&L, developing new products, understanding market trends, and working closely with internal teams and external partners. They ensure that the category meets performance goals, aligns with consumer needs, and contributes to overall business objectives.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Bacherlor's degree in Marketing.
- 6 years experience (preferanly) as Brand Manager.
- Fully bilingual (English & Spanish).
- Expertise in the Foodservice Industry encompasses understanding the dynamics of businesses that provide food and beverages outside of the home, such as restaurants, catering companies, cafeterias, and institutional food services. This knowledge includes familiarity with industry trends, consumer preferences (e.g., health-conscious eating, sustainability), and key operational factors such as supply chain management, menu development, pricing strategies, and customer service standards.
- Portfolio Management involves overseeing a range of products or services within a company's portfolio to ensure optimal performance, growth, and resource allocation. Functional knowledge in this area includes understanding market trends, assessing product life cycles, and strategically managing the introduction, modification, and discontinuation of products.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Griffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. Griffith Foods does not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of the following actual or perceived characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic or information, AIDS or HIV status, order of protection status, marital status, military or veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspect of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, participation in benefit programs, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
In carrying out our commitment to equal employment opportunity, Griffith Foods will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship, safety, and/or health risk. Applicants and employees requiring reasonable accommodations must notify Human Resources.
Other details
- Job Family Marketing
- Job Function Commercial
- Pay Type Salary
- Employment Indicator MEX - 90 Days
- Required Education Bachelor's Degree