Category Manager - Grenade

Mondelēz International; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Category Manager for Grenade, a prominent brand in active nutrition. You will drive category growth, optimize strategies, and strengthen partnerships with retailers. This role offers a chance to shape the company's success in an innovative and growth-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in FMCG sector required.
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables) necessary.
• Understanding of Nielsen IQ platform is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze market trends and develop category strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maximize performance.
• Create compelling sell-in stories for new category opportunities.

Skills

Analytical

Commerciality

Team collaboration

Data interpretation

Identifying trends

Tools

Nielsen IQ

Excel

Power BI

Job description

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bout 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!

Job Description

About 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!

As a market leader, Grenade sells a range of nutritional products, both B2B and B2C, including its signature protein bars and shakes. Joining Grenade’s high performing team, during this exciting period of growth and brand expansion, promises to offer a unique and motivating working environment, with highly rewarding opportunities forpersonal and professional development.

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.

How You Will Contribute:

DISRUPTIVE: CREATIVE INSIGHTS

• 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.
  
  
  

UNITED TEAM: BUILD RELATIONSHIPS

• 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
  
  
  

EMPOWERED: STRATEGIC THINKING

• Support the Head of Category in creating and implementing the international strategy for Grenade
  
  
  

PASSIONATE: CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Continuously look for trends and opportunities to add value and create category improvements with our data & insight
  
  
  

What You Will Bring:

• 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 identifies 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 (5%).

Relocation Support Available?

Business Unit Summary

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. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

Our people make all the difference in our succes

Mondelēz 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.

Excited to grow your career?

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. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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Job Type

Regular

Category Planning & Activation

Sales

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Sales

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Manufacturing, Food and Beverage Services, and Manufacturing

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