Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
Category Manager
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Category Development Manager
Location: Uxbridge (3 Days)
Permanent
What you become part of:
At CCEP, we see the role of the Category Development Manager as pivotal to delivering our business performance. The team's primary objective is to deliver an inspiring and insightful vision for the Soft Drinks category, today and in the future across the various environments. In order to unlock growth, we need our team to be strategic, long-term focused, analytical, and great influencers to work in partnership with our customers and key internal stakeholders.
Reporting into the Senior Category Manager, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of a category strategy to unlock growth potential.
What to expect:
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Support in the development of a clear vision for the Soft Drinks category, creating a framework for growth with a clear and relevant category strategy across key environments and customers.
- Develop strategic plans with key accounts that identify opportunities to drive performance.
- Drive CCEP strategic thinking and value creation story with customers by engaging with Buyers, Merchandisers, and Category Directors.
- Land range relays, macro space resets, tenders/re-negotiations, channel strategy visions, and Customer Business Planning Days.
- Establish and maintain a mutually beneficial customer contact strategy and help broaden our engagement with customers.
- Work in collaboration with key internal stakeholders (including National Accounts, Activation, R&MGM, and Insights) to ensure alignment and execution against the category and brand strategies.
- Ensure delivery of quality category analysis reports, delivering insight to our customers on a regular basis.
- Utilize external providers to ensure we have access to the highest quality data & insight available for our customers and environments.
- Drive change by launching strategic projects such as channel strategy across key customers.
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- Demonstrate passion, proactive ownership, and resilience for growing the category.
- Strong listening and influencing skills at various levels within the organization and with customers.
- Ability to influence diverse stakeholder groups.
- Resilience, determination, and drive are key.
- Behaviors: Drive for innovation, change, agile, curious mindset, resilience, determination, and drive are key.
- In-depth knowledge of Nielsen, CGA, Lumina, IGD, and other data & insight providers.
- We are encouraging applications from candidates who have previous experience of collaborating with large customers, are highly numerate and analytical.
- Previous FMCG Category Management experience is desirable.
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