Category Planning Specialist (temporal)

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 ensure that customer plans are developed and executed by supporting the delivery of strategies and tactics for growth. You understand the business metrics and financial drivers needed to unlock profitable growth for Mondelēz International and our customers and work with key account managers to implement plans to deliver our annual target.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Leads the development of the trade marketing part of the category annual plans (contract process)
• Understands market dynamics / consumer insights by channel to participate on trade marketing strategic decisions
• Leads the business planning meeting where the sales quotas are built in order to accomplish the annual plans based on relevant building blocks
• Suggests and influences investment in category building blocks according to category and channel need and is accountable of execution excellence at point of sale
• Follows up the competitions commercial activity in the category in order to detect business opportunities and potential threats for the brand
• Plays a leadership role within the multi categories teams by leading providing accurate and relevant channel point of sale information that will lead to find business opportunities such as innovations customer promotions portfolio pricing etc. that will lead to achieve multi categories targets

What you will bring

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

• Category planning and delivering growth through category leadership
• Having a future-focused mindset being curious about industry trends digital solutions and innovation for consumers and translating opportunities into business plans
• Developing and delivering plans measuring and monitoring results and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
• Business planning and how to maximize revenue growth
• Influencing stakeholders and interacting effectively with others with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
• Analytical skills and business acumen

More about this role

You will be responsible for:

• Process leadership and communication of the Picture of Success across all retail environments (MT & TT channels) and categories.
• Defining the Picture of Success by channel and category and developing sales arguments for the market together with the shopper insights and category insights teams.
• Defining the Must-Stock List (MSL) for each channel using available tools. Defining category-driven selling stories for Retail Execution (RE) teams that enable category growth (category management) and the achievement of our KPIs by channel.
• Business planning for Q1 (Category Plan Quarterly Sales Meeting etc.).
• Leading and implementing innovation from launch to monitoring and follow-up.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills and the ability to understand interpret and communicate information from data.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Ability to lead a category independently while also collaborating with colleagues.

Job specific requirements:

• 5-6 years of professional experience in a similar role.
• Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) environment preferably in the food sector or another dynamic and fast-paced industry.
• Fluent English (written and spoken).
• Strong knowledge of Excel (experience with Power BI is a plus).

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelors degree in business administration Marketing or a related field.

Relocation Support Available

Business Unit Summary

We value our talented employees and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you we encourage you to apply!

Our people make all the difference in our succes

Mondelēz 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.

Excited to grow your career

We value our talented employees and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you we encourage you to apply!

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