Strategic Category Growth Manager - Soft Drinks

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc; Binfield Heath; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc is seeking a Category Development Manager for the AFH segment in the Uxbridge area. The role reports to the Senior Category Manager and focuses on developing and implementing category strategies to unlock growth across multiple environments and customers.

You will collaborate with national accounts, activation, R&MGM and insights teams to deliver the strategy, supported by robust data sources.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to develop clear category strategies for growth.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into insights.
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management across functions.

Responsibilities

• Support development of a clear Soft Drinks category vision across environments and customers.
• Develop strategic plans with key accounts to identify growth opportunities.
• Drive strategic thinking and value creation with customers through channel strategies and business planning.
• Establish and maintain a mutually beneficial customer contact strategy with key accounts.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to align category and brand strategies.
• Deliver high-quality category analysis and insights regularly.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Influencing

Stakeholder management

Analytical mindset

Tools

Nielsen data

CGA data

Lumina data

IGD data

Job description

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc is seeking a Category Development Manager for the AFH segment in the Uxbridge area. The role reports to the Senior Category Manager and focuses on developing and implementing category strategies to unlock growth across multiple environments and customers.

You will collaborate with national accounts, activation, R&MGM and insights teams to deliver the strategy, supported by robust data sources.