NZ Foods Category Lead: Strategy & Analytics & Growth

Joinimagine; Auckland; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Unilever UK is seeking a Category Operational Lead for NZ Foods to join the Customer Strategy & Planning team. You will drive S&OP-based planning, optimize trade spend and contribute to NPD business cases with category and customer metrics.

You'll analyze market and shopper data to generate insights and build monthly category reporting. Collaboration with cross-functional teams across customer, supply chain, brand and finance is essential to deliver growth for the Foods category.

Qualifications

• Experience in FMCG or similar retail industry.
• 2-3+ years of business experience, preferably cross-functional, with customer-facing and category experience and a proven track record.
• Planning experience and a strong analytical mindset.
• Exposure to NZ market will be desirable, although not essential.

Responsibilities

• Drive the business planning rhythm through S&OP (Sales & Operation Planning) to deliver an accurate and reliable category forecast partnering with Supply Chain and local Customer Management teams.
• Optimize Trade Spend (TTS) budgets and Net Review Management (NRM) principles to drive efficiency of investment and optimal pricing and promo strategies.
• Working with the Brand Marketing Lead, input into and shape NPD business case development with key category and customer metrics and inputs.
• Analyze market and shopper data (scan, panel & loyalty data) to build insights that support decision-making and craft customer strategies and stories.
• Build category knowledge and expertise within CSP and across the business by generating standardised category market data reporting and analysis on a monthly cadence.
• Work with the ANZ CSP Lead and NZ local customer managers, using customer and category insights to shape category expertise and external range review and Joint Business Planning (JBP) delivery.

Skills

Commercial skills

Data analytics

Customer & shopper mindset

NRM

Cross-functional collaboration

Agility

Job description

Unilever UK is seeking a Category Operational Lead for NZ Foods to join the Customer Strategy & Planning team. You will drive S&OP-based planning, optimize trade spend and contribute to NPD business cases with category and customer metrics.

You'll analyze market and shopper data to generate insights and build monthly category reporting. Collaboration with cross-functional teams across customer, supply chain, brand and finance is essential to deliver growth for the Foods category.