Category Development Manager Wholesale 12 Month Contract
Category Development Manager Wholesale 12 Month Contract
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Job Description:
Category Development Lead Wholesale 12 Month Assignment
You will be responsible for building winning category customer relationships and delivering functional excellence in all Category Leadership initiatives tactics and practices through leveraging market shopper and customer insights and identifying category growth opportunities. You will be the voice of the customer category and shopper within the Mars Wrigley business and will play a leading role in defining the longterm strategic ambition and category agenda for Traditional Convenience our singles heartland.
What are we looking for
- Category management/Customer management experience essential
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships both internal and external
- Financially astute and proven business judgement with an understanding of the commercial impact of their own decision making.
- Working in cross functional environment/team
- Data literate able to turn data into insights and actions
What will be your key responsibilities
- Create short and longterm category strategies for Wholesale Foodservice and their partners ensuring a strong understanding of the category growth drivers
- Use a mix of market shopper and customer insights to identify growth opportunities and recommendations in line with the Snacking Category Vision Driver and Activation platforms
- Deploy a T&L programme to continually evolve category thought leadership
- Lead and influence customer thinking and of key initiatives such as store layouts range and space allocation location optimisation and BIC activation of Category products
- Build strong and influential relationships externally and internally focused on delivering shopper channel and category centric solutions so that Mars is viewed as THE trusted category expert
What can you expect from Mars
- Work with diverse and talented Associates all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company where were striving to build the world we want tomorrow today.
- Bestinclass learning and development support from day one including access to our inhouse Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package including company bonus.
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.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
