Advisor Category

About Us:

The Marzetti Company (Nasdaq: MZTI) manufactures and sells specialty food products. Our retail brands include Marzetti® dressings and dips, New York Bakery garlic breads, and Sister Schubert’s® dinner rolls, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden® dressings, Chick-fil-A® sauces and dressings, Buffalo Wild Wings® sauces, Arby’s® sauces, Subway® sauces, and Texas Roadhouse® steak sauces and frozen rolls. Our foodservice business supplies sauces, dressings, breads, and pasta to many of the top restaurant chains in the United States.

At Marzetti, our mission is to make every meal better through high-quality, flavorful food. Led by our purpose, to nourish growth with all that we do, our team members are dedicated to creating great tasting food and cultivating deep and lasting relationships.

Overview:

Serve as a lead category consultant partnering with Walmart to shape category vision and go-to-market strategy. Act as the primary point of contact for category, consumer, and market insights, delivering objective, fact-based recommendations on assortment, shelf layout, space management, and merchandising to drive category growth at Walmart. 

 

 

We kindly request that recruitment agencies and staffing firms refrain from submitting unsolicited resumes to our company. Any resumes sent without a prior agreement and access to proper submittal into the ATS will be considered the property of The Marzetti Company, and we reserve the right to contact those candidates without any obligation to pay a fee.

 

 

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Walmart Buyer to support development of category objectives, strategies, and tactics 
• Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with Walmart Buyers and cross-functional partners through regular engagement, clear communication, and responsiveness 
• Lead the modular drawing process aligned to merchant strategies, including shelf layout design, assortment recommendations, and set size optimization, while ensuring ease of store execution and compliance 
• Proactively identify emerging shopper and marketplace trends, leveraging available data and insights to develop fact-based recommendations 
• Develop and maintain both custom and standardized reports to support customer meetings, category reviews, and ad hoc requests 
• Support development of analytical tools and reporting to track and measure category performance across formats 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field required 
• Minimum 5 years of experience in consumer packaged goods within category management, sales, and/or market research 
• Demonstrated category management expertise, preferably supporting Walmart as a Category Advisor 
• Advanced proficiency in Retail Link, IRI, Scintilla, Panel data, JDA ProSpace, Excel, and PowerPoint 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations 
• Self-starter with strong ownership, bias for action, and results orientation 
• Strategic thinker with strong storytelling and influencing capabilities 
• Demonstrated resilience, adaptability, and ability to navigate change 
• Ability to operate effectively at both detailed and strategic levels 

No Supervisory Responsibility 

Competencies:

• Customer Focus 
• Decision Quality 
• Strategic Mindset 
• Drives Results  
• Collaborates  
• Manages Ambiguity 

Working Conditions/Environment:

Works in a normal office environment where the employee is regularly required to speak, see, hear, sit, stand, talk, type, walk and bend while moving about the facility.  The noise level in the office is quiet. Occasional travel to plants or meetings is required.