Category Growth Manager

Mondelez Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the snacking industry seeks a Category Manager to spearhead category growth through strategic planning and customer insights. The ideal candidate will leverage data to optimize product strategies and partner with retailers to align on strategic objectives. Strong analytical skills and experience in fast-moving consumer goods are essential for success in this dynamic role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Category Management or Customer Insights.
• Understanding of the FMCG environment is critical.
• Experience in analytical storytelling and data interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute selling programs related to category innovation and merchandising.
• Build category and customer plans based on insights.
• Drive growth through strategic recommendations and data analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Business acumen

Category development

Customer insights

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

NielsenIQ

IRI

Job description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelz International

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You provide compelling insights and engage with customers and key account teams. You identify and track category opportunities that support growth or defend risk and apply your insights for category shopper and consumer metrics when analyzing and translating data sources.

How you will contribute

You will :

• Responsible for the development and execution of selling programs related to their assigned Categorys innovation distribution merchandising and promotional plans
• Key linkage between the Customer Business Teams (CBTs) and the Category Innovation Marketing and Equity teams to ensure that our strategies and tactics are aligned to the needs of our Customers
• Responsible for building category and customer plans for the assigned Category working collaboratively with Category teams Insights and Customer Business Teams (CBTs)
• Be seen as the Category expert internally and create compelling actionable & measurable category plans
• Provide thought leadership internally & externally around brand & category initiatives (promotional strategy / budget planning)
• Leading delivery of category dashboard / fundamentals and recommending corrective actions to ensure targets are met
• Ongoing assessment of critical baseline volume opportunities / risks and lead initiatives to optimize category performance

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge :

• Category development key accounts and market insight analysis and delivering growth through category leadership
• Having a futurefocused mindset demonstrating curiosity about industry trends digital solutions and innovation for consumers and translating opportunities into business plans
• Delivering strategic plans measuring and monitoring results and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
• Influence stakeholders and interacting effectively with others with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
• Analytical skills and business acumen
• Proven experience in the fastmoving consumer goods field is a distinct advantage

Be a part of the Category Management team focused on championing category growth and share leadership by developing a strong trusted partnership with our retailers grounded in a consumer / shopper mindset.

Role Highlights :

Do you love data strategy and driving sales

Youll be :

• Building category strategies : Leveraging data and insights to optimize product assortment shelving and price recommendations across various retailers.
• Becoming a category expert : Deeply understanding the market competition and consumer needs within your assigned categories.
• Driving growth : Translating market knowledge into actionable recommendations for retailers and Mondelez to deliver on objectives.
• Leading planograms : Partnering with retailers to implement bestinclass shelving strategies that align with customers strategic intent.
• Provide expert category knowledge on performance innovation market insights trends and consumer data. This includes the development and maintenance of bestinclass reporting insights and platforms
• Bringing Mondelez best in class local Regional and Global knowledge to the retailer on assigned categories.

What youll need to succeed in the role :

Experience :

• Minimum Bachelors University Degree in a related field
• Minimum 5 years experience in Category Management / Category Advisor / Customer Insights
• Minimum 3 year customer facing role is strongly preferred
• Account Management and Shopper Insights experience an asset
• Analytic storytelling skills : integrating and interpreting data and insights from multiple disparate sources into a concise actionoriented recommendations and strong presentation skills to bring recommendations to life.
• A background and understanding of the FMCG environment is critical.
• Snacking experience (Biscuit Confectionary NPF / bars) an asset
• Attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines

Technical Capabilities :

• Expertise in Syndicated Market Research Data and Analytic tools (NielsenIQ MarketTrack & Homescan LDIA Retail Link IRI Dunnhumby Numerator)
• Advanced skills in Excel and Powerpoint

Work Schedule :

Regular business hours MF (Hybrid)

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term accommodation in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

Regular

Category Planning & Activation

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Abinitio,Aerospace Engineering,Corporate Relationship,Business Administration,Financial Reporting,Avionics

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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