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Nestlé is seeking a Customer Category Manager for its Nutrition Commercial Development team in Gatwick. This pivotal role involves developing and executing category plans and driving customer growth strategies in collaboration with major retailers. The successful candidate should possess strong commercial instincts and proven experience in influencing stakeholders to achieve business results. Hybrid working options are available.
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Business Area: Nestlé Nutrition
Customer Category Manager
Location: Gatwick (Hybrid working – approx. 2 flexible days a week in the office)
Attractive Salary + potential bonus + other fantastic benefits
Championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business.
At Nestlé, we are proud to support and provide equality of opportunity that supports employees to effectively blend their work life and commitments through hybrid and flexible working arrangements, so speak to us to understand what this could look like for you.
Position Summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Customer Category Manager to join our Nutrition Commercial Development team. This is an exciting and pivotal role in the team that will see you develop, manage and execute our customer category plans working in partnership with our major multiple customers. We are looking for an experienced commercial or category professional who has the ability to always ‘put the category first’ ensuring we operate as a real impartial strategic partner to our customers. What’s key is that we deliver value added insight that drives category growth for the long term with our customers.
A little bit about us
For more than 155 years, our Nutrition products have been welcomed into homes around the world, and our long history has established us as the nutritional partner of choice for families and individuals.
We provide a wide range of products and services across every life stage - from newborn to adult - to support lifelong health and well-being for all. Grounded in our deep understanding of today's nutritional challenges and the link between food and health, we leverage our R&D expertise to offer tasty and balanced diets which cater to the different needs of mothers, babies, young children, teens and adults.
Together with like-minded partners, we will continue to be there for everyone, every day, at every stage of life.
Our ecosystem has continued to evolve, with new partnerships to help consumers connect with our brands, and our social platforms provide invaluable support, information, fun and connection for our consumers.
A day in the life of a Customer Category Manager...
As Customer Category Manager, you'll be at the intersection of commercial strategy and brand growth, driving category initiatives and brand innovation that helps the lives of millions of consumers.
Every day brings fresh challenges and opportunities as you orchestrate our category vision across major retailers. You'll partner with marketing teams to transform category & consumer insights into compelling category strategies for our brands that unlock incremental category growth for retailers. Building credibility and trust with retail partners will be key to enabling a collaborative partnership so that you can bring these plans to life at point of purchase.
You will be responsible for developing and deploying tailored channel and category plans at a customer level, including point of purchase solutions to deliver overall category growth resulting in market share growth for Nestlé, whilst ensuring impartiality with the customer.
You will also:
What will make you successful
While previous category or commercial experience is essential (FMCG experience is a plus), what truly matters is your ability to influence, engage, and deliver results. You will be passionate, tenacious, results focused and enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment. Acting as an ambassador for our Nestlé brands, you will have commercial capability and have experience of influencing across all levels internally and externally, ideally within a matrix structure.
The ideal candidate will bring:
We're looking for someone who gets energized by understanding the 'why' behind shopper behaviour and isn't afraid to challenge the status quo. You'll need to be equally comfortable diving into data, presenting to senior stakeholders, and collaborating across teams to drive change.
Most importantly, you'll bring fresh thinking and the courage to disrupt – always with the end goal of driving category growth through our brands.
What you need to know
We will be considering and interviewing candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. When we embrace diversity and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. If there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the application process, please let us know. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity, our people make up a number of Colleague Networks who represent different experiences and communities who hold us accountable in creating a sense of belonging for all, and our values create the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution you bring. Find out more about our Colleague Networks here: Diversity, equity and inclusion | Nestlé (nestle.co.uk)
We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!
Position Snapshot
Business Area: Nestlé Nutrition
Customer Category Manager
Location: Gatwick (Hybrid working – approx. 2 flexible days a week in the office)
Attractive Salary + potential bonus + other fantastic benefits
Championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business.
At Nestlé, we are proud to support and provide equality of opportunity that supports employees to effectively blend their work life and commitments through hybrid and flexible working arrangements, so speak to us to understand what this could look like for you.
Position Summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Customer Category Manager to join our Nutrition Commercial Development team. This is an exciting and pivotal role in the team that will see you develop, manage and execute our customer category plans working in partnership with our major multiple customers. We are looking for an experienced commercial or category professional who has the ability to always ‘put the category first’ ensuring we operate as a real impartial strategic partner to our customers. What’s key is that we deliver value added insight that drives category growth for the long term with our customers.
A little bit about us
For more than 155 years, our Nutrition products have been welcomed into homes around the world, and our long history has established us as the nutritional partner of choice for families and individuals.
We provide a wide range of products and services across every life stage - from newborn to adult - to support lifelong health and well-being for all. Grounded in our deep understanding of today's nutritional challenges and the link between food and health, we leverage our R&D expertise to offer tasty and balanced diets which cater to the different needs of mothers, babies, young children, teens and adults.
Together with like-minded partners, we will continue to be there for everyone, every day, at every stage of life.
Our ecosystem has continued to evolve, with new partnerships to help consumers connect with our brands, and our social platforms provide invaluable support, information, fun and connection for our consumers.
A day in the life of a Customer Category Manager...
As Customer Category Manager, you'll be at the intersection of commercial strategy and brand growth, driving category initiatives and brand innovation that helps the lives of millions of consumers.
Every day brings fresh challenges and opportunities as you orchestrate our category vision across major retailers. You'll partner with marketing teams to transform category & consumer insights into compelling category strategies for our brands that unlock incremental category growth for retailers. Building credibility and trust with retail partners will be key to enabling a collaborative partnership so that you can bring these plans to life at point of purchase.
You will be responsible for developing and deploying tailored channel and category plans at a customer level, including point of purchase solutions to deliver overall category growth resulting in market share growth for Nestlé, whilst ensuring impartiality with the customer.
You will also:
What will make you successful
While previous category or commercial experience is essential (FMCG experience is a plus), what truly matters is your ability to influence, engage, and deliver results. You will be passionate, tenacious, results focused and enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment. Acting as an ambassador for our Nestlé brands, you will have commercial capability and have experience of influencing across all levels internally and externally, ideally within a matrix structure.
The ideal candidate will bring:
We're looking for someone who gets energized by understanding the 'why' behind shopper behaviour and isn't afraid to challenge the status quo. You'll need to be equally comfortable diving into data, presenting to senior stakeholders, and collaborating across teams to drive change.
Most importantly, you'll bring fresh thinking and the courage to disrupt – always with the end goal of driving category growth through our brands.
What you need to know
We will be considering and interviewing candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. When we embrace diversity and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. If there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the application process, please let us know. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity, our people make up a number of Colleague Networks who represent different experiences and communities who hold us accountable in creating a sense of belonging for all, and our values create the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution you bring. Find out more about our Colleague Networks here: Diversity, equity and inclusion | Nestlé (nestle.co.uk)
We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!