Category Development/Manager

4 months ago

Waltham on the Wolds, United Kingdom Mars Full time
JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description:

Are you an expert of what you do and want a role where you can put all your knowledge into practice every day, partnering with the local business units and global teams? We can give you the opportunity to do this in a value driven company where you will develop yourself together with the organization every day.

As part of the UK Category Management Team, you will lead the development and execution of the category picture of success through strategic category plans, enabling Mars to build strong and sustainable partnerships for mutual, profitable and sustainable category growth of our pet nutrition segment. Reporting to the Category Manager Controller, through this role you will be delivering best in class category leadership, leading directly the relationship of mature customers/ less complex customer groups, by using a mix of market, shopper and customer insights.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for you to be a problem solver with a drive for results, who value your own integrity and the trust your colleagues put in you. We see that you have a high learning agility to learn new tasks, building on the current expertise to create a healthy business growth.

You will have Category expertise in a similar role

Ideally from a retailer background

Additional Marketing and Sales experience would be preferred

What will be your key responsibilities?

Deliver the category vision content, tailored to the retailer by developing a clear 3 year Category strategy aligned with the retailer

Understand and deploy vision to the shelf for the account, collaborating with Sales to set join targets using picture of success model

Work with objectivity both with our external and internal customers. Ensures Category growth and objectivity are at heart of all interactions with Customers

Deliver best in class Category Management by taking an objective total category perspective when providing market, consumer and shopper insights to customer/operational teams

Responsible for the Range Review process from inception through to implementation and delivery of post review analysis

Delivery of Mars innovation launches into the account/customer including creating category focused selling stories

Collaboration with insight colleagues to deliver depth account/customer understanding

Performance tracking and delivery of core KPIs compliance

Delivery of customer relationship, meetings and interaction vs the contact strategy

Develop good relationships with internal Mars Account teams and ensure internal alignment behind customer category strategy. Attend account team meetings and establishing yourself as an integral part of their team

What can you expect from Mars?

Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.

Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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