Category Manager

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS); West Midlands; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An international nutrition brand based in the UK is seeking a Category Manager to drive category growth and optimize strategies. The role requires strong analytical skills and experience in the FMCG sector. Responsibilities include market trend analysis, report generation, and collaboration with sales and marketing teams. This position offers relocation support and encourages career development within a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

Relocation support

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Desire to drive your future and accelerate your career.
• Inquisitive nature to understand underlying reasons.
• Ability to work with large datasets.
• Experience in FMCG sector.
• Up to date understanding of Nielsen IQ platform.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables.
• Power BI skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and update reports on category, brand and competitor performance.
• Develop compelling sell-in stories for new category opportunities.
• Share insights with Sales, Product & Marketing teams.
• Provide key data from Nielsen to maximize value.
• Support the Head of Category in international strategy.

Skills

Analytical

Commerciality

Team collaboration

Proactive improvement identification

Experience in FMCG sector

Nielsen IQ platform understanding

Advanced Excel skills

Power BI skills

Job description

Overview

Are you ready to seize your next opportunity at Grenade?

Grenade is an international active nutrition and lifestyle brand, which has grown rapidly since its launch in 2010. Driven by its strong branding, distinctive products, and highly innovative approach, Grenade has made an explosive impact in the FMCG Industry.

We are looking for a Category Manager joining our team to play a pivotal role in shaping the company's success by driving category growth, optimizing pack architecture, and strengthening relationships with retail partners and distributors in the international team. This role involves analysing market trends, developing category strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to maximize performance and market share within strategically important markets.

Joining Grenade's high-performing team, during this period of growth and brand expansion, promises to offer a unique and motivating working environment, with highly rewarding opportunities for personal and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Create and update regular reports, reviewing category, brand and competitor performance.
• Connect multiple insights to develop compelling and succinct sell-in stories for new category opportunities.
• Share actionable insights with the Sales, Product & Marketing teams, to ensure that they are armed with relevant category insights and recommendations for growth opportunities - via visual content creation.
• Key data provider (Nielsen) to maximise value from our spend on data in each market
• Internal sales team to support the objective of growing sales of Grenade
• Mondelez global team to access shared consumer, shopper and market insight
• Support the Head of Category in creating and implementing the international strategy for Grenade
• Continuously look for trends and opportunities to add value and create category improvements with our data & insight

What you will bring / Qualifications

• A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
• Inquisitive - want to understand the 'why'
• Analytical - happy to work with large amounts of data
• Commerciality - with an awareness of how one decision can impact another
• Work well as part of a team
• Proactively identify ways for continuous improvement
• Experience in FMCG sector
• Up to date understanding on Nielsen IQ platform
• Advanced Excel skills (i.e. pivot tables)
• Power BI skills

If you think you could do this role, don't let anything stop you from applying. International travel may be required, but this will be small.

Relocation Support Available

Relocation support is available.

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Mondelèz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Job Type

Regular

Category Planning & Activation

Sales