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Category Development Manager, Target

Location: US Remote - Minneapolis, MN

You've built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we're challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what's next. As a Category Development Manager Target, you'll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

About the Job:

• Lead initiatives that advance our brands and strengthen our reputation worldwide.
• Mentor and uplift emerging talent while pushing your own growth and influence.
• Put purpose into practice - embedding sustainability, access and social impact into every decision.
• Model the challenger mindset: question complexity, act with integrity and make things radically simple.
• Help shape a culture that's ambitious, collaborative and serious about recognition and belonging.

Main Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Target Account Team to drive strategy for new items, promotions, merchandising, and category management (including shelf and POG recommendations).
• Lead and support retailer-specific research projects, leveraging macro and shopper insights while identifying efficiencies across internal and external efforts.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Target, Opella CHC HQ, and broker partners, managing sales reporting and streamlining reporting processes.
• Develop and support annual account plans, including BCC recommendations, KPM tactics, and strategies to achieve distribution, merchandising, and promotional objectives.
• Provide robust analytical support using customer insights and syndicated data (e.g., Numerator) for planning, promotional evaluation, business reviews, and new item tracking.
• Manage merchandising excellence through effective planogram placement, competitive monitoring, and field-level retail execution.
• Translate consumer and category trends into actionable insights, supporting new item launches, category leadership initiatives, and proactive responses to customer needs and market opportunities.

About You:

• B.A. / B.S. degree required. MBA preferred.
• 5 + years of proven delivery in CPG, preferably within OTC/, both top and bottom-line results required. Excellent business acumen; proficient category, segment knowledge. Target selling experience preferred. RX to OTC switching knowledge preferred.
• Experience in working on multi-disciplinary teams and managing significant volume of projects.
• Knowledge of syndicated data sources, Circana preferred, Numerator Insights & Promo Intel, experience in planogram software systems preferred
• Curiosity and passion for creating breakthrough moments in store merchandising and store operation execution.
• Promote and lead with direct, honest, and supportive communication
• Extremely organized, dependable and self-motivated with the ability to excel in a fast-paced environment.

This is more than the next step in your career, it's a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you're ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we're ready for you.

We are challengers. We are Opella.

Opella Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is: $110,000.00 - $160,000.00

All Compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.

About Us:

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.

Our mission is to bring health in people's hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide - and counting.

At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world's most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.

As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission atwww.opella.com.

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