Strategic Category Manager: Growth, Forecast & Promotions

Century Pacific Food, Inc.; Pasig; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Century Pacific Food, Inc. seeks a Category Manager to lead the overall category commercial plan and ensure cross-functional alignment with Sales, Category, Finance, Demand Planning, and Logistics teams. The role delivers on budgets, resources, and the sales plan.

The position involves owning governance for the category, defining strategy and budgets, developing promotional plans, and monitoring performance across channels and customers to meet targets.

Responsibilities

• Owns the process, governance, and communication for the category commercial plan and results.
• Defines the strategy and budgets required to deliver targets and the phased sales forecast.
• Develops the category promotional strategy across channels and customers
• Manages the category forecast across channels and customers.
• Monitors category performance across channels (revenue) and customers.
• Provides sales input from a bottom-up forecast to the integrated business planning process.
• Defines the annual bottom-up customer and channel plan to meet business unit actual targets and forecast.
• Determines required investments, resources, and enablers for effective execution by customer and channel.
• In conjunction with Finance, Demand Planning, and Customer Service and Logistics, delivers monthly, quarterly, and annual targets.
• Ensures store score standards are planned and implemented across customers and retail environments.

Job description

Century Pacific Food, Inc. seeks a Category Manager to lead the overall category commercial plan and ensure cross-functional alignment with Sales, Category, Finance, Demand Planning, and Logistics teams. The role delivers on budgets, resources, and the sales plan.

The position involves owning governance for the category, defining strategy and budgets, developing promotional plans, and monitoring performance across channels and customers to meet targets.