Category Growth Manager

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You provide compelling insights and engage with customers and key account teams. You identify and track category opportunities that support growth or defend risk and apply your insights for category, shopper, and consumer metrics when analyzing and translating data sources.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Responsible for the development and execution of selling programs related to their assigned Category's innovation, distribution, merchandising, and promotional plans
• Key linkage between the Customer Business Teams (CBTs) and the Category Innovation, Marketing and Equity teams to ensure that our strategies and tactics are aligned to the needs of our Customers
• Responsible for building category and customer plans for the assigned Category, working collaboratively with Category teams, Insights, and Customer Business Teams (CBTs)
• Be seen as the Category expert internally and create compelling, actionable & measurable category plans
• Provide thought leadership internally & externally around brand & category initiatives (promotional strategy / budget planning)
• Leading delivery of category dashboard / fundamentals and recommending corrective actions to ensure targets are met
• Ongoing assessment of critical baseline volume opportunities / risks and lead initiatives to optimize category performance

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Category development, key accounts and market insight analysis and delivering growth through category leadership
• Having a future-focused mindset, demonstrating curiosity about industry trends, digital solutions and innovation for consumers and translating opportunities into business plans
• Delivering strategic plans, measuring and monitoring results, and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
• Influence stakeholders and interacting effectively with others, with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
• Analytical skills and business acumen
• Proven experience in the fast-moving consumer goods field is a distinct advantage

Be a part of the Category Management team focused on championing category growth and share leadership by developing a strong trusted partnership with our retailers, grounded in a consumer/shopper mindset.

Role Highlights:

Do you love data, strategy, and driving sales?

You’ll be:

• Building category strategies: Leveraging data and insights to optimize product assortment, shelving, and price recommendations across various retailers.
• Becoming a category expert: Deeply understanding the market, competition, and consumer needs within your assigned categories.
• Driving growth: Translating market knowledge into actionable recommendations for retailers and Mondelez to deliver on objectives.
• Leading planograms: Partnering with retailers to implement best-in-class shelving strategies that align with customers strategic intent.
• Provide expert category knowledge on performance, innovation, market insights, trends and consumer data. This includes the development and maintenance of best-in-class reporting insights and platforms
• Bringing Mondelez best in class local, Regional and Global knowledge to the retailer on assigned categories.

What you’ll need to succeed in the role:

Experience:

• Minimum Bachelor’s University Degree in a related field
• Minimum 5+ years experience in Category Management / Category Advisor/ Customer Insights
• Minimum 3 year customer facing role is strongly preferred
• Account Management and Shopper Insights experience an asset
• Analytic storytelling skills:  integrating and interpreting data and insights from multiple disparate sources into a concise action-oriented recommendations and strong presentation skills to bring recommendations to life.
• A background and understanding of the FMCG environment is critical.
• Snacking experience (Biscuit, Confectionary, NPF/bars) an asset
• Attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines

Technical Capabilities:

• Expertise in Syndicated Market Research Data and Analytic tools (NielsenIQ MarketTrack & Homescan, LDIA, Retail Link, IRI, Dunnhumby, Numerator)
• Excellent Space Planning / JDA Pro Space skills
• Advanced skills in Excel and Powerpoint

Work Schedule:

Regular business hours M-F (Hybrid)

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process.  Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

RegularCategory Planning & ActivationSales