Category Development Manager - TT

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelz International

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

You help develop a comprehensive view of what great looks like in retail enterprises for our categories. You create marketleading capabilities in managing space range and distribution to maximize category growth throughout all retail channels and environments and track and measure performance of space against forecast plans.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Deliver our Mondelz International Perfect Store agenda identifying relevant growth potentials via customer & shopper analysis and implement/develop actionable measures
• Design Picture of Success for our key customers in regard of shelf secondary placement and promotion efficiency
• Lead Category Management projects with key customers
• Equip Sales Teams with relevant materials and tools and train/steer them to efficiently execute perfect store related topics. Support development of annual trade negotiations.
• Develop plans and ideas to drive and improve future business of Mondelz International in light of perfect store related topics
• Close collaboration with multiple functions internally and external stakeholders

What you will bring

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

• Store excellence and routestomarket
• Having a futurefocused mindset with curiosity about industry trends digital solutions and innovation for consumers and translating opportunities into business strategies
• Delivering a strategic plan measuring and monitoring results and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
• Influencing stakeholders and interacting effectively with others with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
• Team player
• Collaboration
• Sales in a fastmoving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods industry a distinct advantage
• Project management a distinct advantage

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

Shopper research shows that 70% buying devisions happen in store hence the Category Manager plays an important role in devising instore strategy and guidelines that help influence shopper decision at the POB and grow conversion and transactions. You support the team to define category growth strategies across different RE along with defining the right merchandising strategy. You would determine how our brands come alive in store through various shopper marketing initiatives in Traditional Trade and other channels

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Liase with RE managers for creation governance & communication of the Picture of success across TT Retail environments & categories

Define the required instore merchandising & shopper marketing initiatives to drive the instore agenda in Traditional Trade

Develop Picture of Success for different Traditional Trade RE/ formats based on shopper insights and category strategy

Measure & review Perfect Store KPI Health & performance for Traditional Trade

POB Budget management and health of system for Biscuits and GCPB categories

Ensure we design best in class POB based on shopper and brand guidelines defined across channels and RE

Define our instore success agenda & go to market selling materials (selling stories POS etc) across channels.

Category Management

Collaborate with insights team to derive actionalbe insights by Category and Customer across channels for biscuits category growth

Work closely with Category Develepment lead in creating category and channel growth strategy

Create & drive specialized Category Management and development programs for TT

Creating standardised tools & guidelines to help execution by frontline team

Work with creative agency and marketing team to develop and T&L Future of the Store concepts and create Model TT stores

Develop Planogram Modules for Category and assets in Traditional Trade

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years making sure our mouthwatering and wellloved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers handsand mouths. Headquartered in Mumbai the company has more than 3300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi Mumbai Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country. We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 the fourth time weve received this award.

Mondelz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation or preference gender identity national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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