Category Manager - Grenade

Mondelez España Galletas Production SLU; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Grenade is seeking a Customer Category Manager to drive category growth, optimise assortment, and strengthen relationships with retail partners. Based in the UK, you will lead the Wholesale & Convenience category, analyse market trends, develop category strategies and collaborate with Sales, Product & Marketing to maximise performance.

This role offers a fast-paced, growth-focused environment with strong development opportunities for personal and professional skills in a leading nutrition brand.

Qualifications

• Category development, key accounts and market insight analysis and delivering growth through category leadership.
• Experience with PowerBI and Nielsen as a minimum.
• Future-focused mindset with curiosity about industry trends, digital solutions and consumer innovation.

Responsibilities

• Update regular reports and optimise category performance for key retail accounts.
• Share actionable insights with Sales, Product & Marketing and present at monthly meetings.
• Build relationships with W&C customers and provide range reviews and merchandising recommendations.
• Identify category opportunities and develop compelling sell-in stories for new opportunities.
• Monitor trends and identify value-adding category improvements from data and insights.

Skills

PowerBI

Nielsen

Category development

Key accounts

Market insight analysis

Tools

PowerBI

Nielsen

Job description

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! Today, Grenade’s Protein Bar is the UK’s best-selling, and we continue to innovate with our leading range of Shakes, and performance nutrition.

We are looking for an exceptional Customer Category Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s success by driving category growth, optimizingproduct assortment, and strengthening relationships with retail partners. This role leads the Wholesale & Convenience function of the category team and involves analysing markettrends, developing category strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to maximizeperformance and market share within key retail accounts.

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.

How you will contribute

• Update regular reports (creating and optimising, where required), reviewing category and brand performance.
• Share actionable insights with the Sales, Product & Marketing teams, to ensure that they arearmed with relevant category insights and recommendations, presenting at monthly teammeetings.
• Build relationships with key W&C customers, supporting them with initiative- taking analysisand presenting key category recommendations.
• Conduct Range Reviews, identifying category opportunities and providing merchandisingsolutions that are right for the shopper, retailer, and Grenade business.
• Have a commercial mindset when making recommendations
• Connect multiple insights to develop compelling and succinct sell-in stories for new categoryopportunities.
• Continuously look for trends and opportunities to add value and create categoryimprovements with our data & insight.

What you will bring

• Category development, key accounts and market insight analysis and delivering growth through category leadership
• Experience with PowerBI and Nielsen as a minimum
• Having a future-focused 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

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Business Unit Summary

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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.

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