Senior Category Manager Off-Trade and eCommerce

Brown-Forman Australia Pty. Ltd.; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Senior Category Manager to lead strategic initiatives in the spirits category. This pivotal role involves building relationships with key customers, developing innovative strategies, and driving category growth through insightful analysis and collaboration. Join a forward-thinking company that values teamwork and empowers you to bring your best self to work. You'll have the opportunity to influence the market and make a significant impact on customer success while enjoying a comprehensive rewards package that reflects your contributions and supports your professional growth.

Benefits

Holiday Bonus

Continuous Learning Programs

Equitable Pay Structures

Premium Employee Experience

Qualifications

• Proven experience in category management and strategic planning.
• Ability to analyze data and generate insights for growth.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute strategic plans for customer growth.
• Collaborate with internal teams to enhance customer experience.
• Track performance metrics to identify improvement areas.

Skills

Strategic Planning

Commercial Awareness

Leadership

Insight Analysis

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field

MBA or equivalent

Job description

Senior Category Manager Off-Trade and eCommerce

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

Total Rewards

At Brown-Forman, we believe in recognizing the bold ideas, ethical decisions, and winning results that make the company’s short- and long-term success possible. This recognition comes in many forms, to include your base salary, holiday bonus, and any incentives you may earn.

We create an environment that nurtures and prioritizes continuous learning. At Brown-Forman, you are empowered to take charge of your own development with a variety of customized, award-winning programs available for every step of your career journey.

Nothing Better in the Market

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

Total Rewards

At Brown-Forman, we believe in recognizing the bold ideas, ethical decisions, and winning results that make the company’s short- and long-term success possible. This recognition comes in many forms, to include your base salary, holiday bonus, and any incentives you may earn.

We create an environment that nurtures and prioritizes continuous learning. At Brown-Forman, you are empowered to take charge of your own development with a variety of customized, award-winning programs available for every step of your career journey.

Nothing Better in the Market

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

Total Rewards

At Brown-Forman, we believe in recognizing the bold ideas, ethical decisions, and winning results that make the company’s short- and long-term success possible. This recognition comes in many forms, to include your base salary, holiday bonus, and any incentives you may earn.

This is a pivotal role, with the responsibility to generate and implement strategies to drive growth for our customers’ spirits categories. Working across Grocery, your time will be spent building relationships with our customers, collaborating with internal teams and generating insights which will change the way people shop and unlock category growth.

What You Can Expect

Be at the forefront of creating and executing strategic plans for your assigned customers

Support the development and creation of a three year category vision that will transform our customers’ business.

Curating the right mix of products within spirits, planning their placement, and influencing visual merchandising to enhance the customer experience and drive sales.

Creating compelling sell-in stories for Innovation to engage and gain distribution across the trade

Regularly tracking and analysing the performance of your customers against key metrics will be essential to identify areas for improvement.

Scope and embed the picture of success for Brown Forman across your key customers

Work with senior stakeholders in our customers’ businesses to identify opportunities and build collaborative, joint business plans to grow the spirits category for both the customer and Brown Forman. Become our customers’ leading and influential whisky category partner.

Working collaboratively with the Brown Forman teams joining the dots between shopper, consumer, brand and commercial to create powerful insight that gives our customers a competitive advantage

What You Bring to the Table

Ability to excite and engage people with the power of insight led strategy and ideas

High energy self-starter, independently prioritising tasks, challenging current thinking and leading change

Commercially aware and able to integrate customer agenda into thinking

Provide strong leadership, direction and growth opportunities for Category Specialist who will be directly reporting into you

What Makes You Unique

Visionary thinker bringing long-term, broad perspective, big picture strategic insight, step change strategies

Strong business acumen, able to identify and distil key issues and opportunities

A change agent, with a strong drive for results, who drives projects through the business

Persuasive, able to put across a point of view convincingly, leveraging diverse thinking

Works powerfully with and through people, using influence to accomplish goals.

Innovative mindset, out of the box thinker, recognising opportunities and delivering creative solutions

Who We Are

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

What We Offer

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.

Brown-Forman Corporation is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. It is the policy of Brown-Forman Corporation to provide full and equal employment opportunities to all employees and potential employees without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status.