Category Development Manager, Hygiene/Home

Job Description:

We are (COMPANY NAME)

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Sales​

Category Development Manager
Warsaw, Poland

Are you passionate about shaping the customer experience and influencing the journey of market-leading brands? As a Category Development Manager at (COMPANY NAME), your strategies will directly impact on our success in engaging shoppers. You'll partner with key customers using insights to inform their category strategy, whilst focusing on the fine details of the 4Ps (Product, Price, Promotion, Place). In this position, you'll engage with a variety of teams to create category plans that resonate with customers and drive our brands to new heights. If you're ready to bring your vision to life and inspire change, this is your stage.

Your responsibilities

* Acting as a consultant for Customers, Sales department and Trade Marketing on listing priorities and vision planograms
* End to end responsibility for category management process with key customers
* Planning and coordination of customer workshops in close cooperation with Sales and Trade Marketing teams
* Co-creation of Listing Priorities at customer level in cooperation with Sales and Trade Marketing
* In deep analyses of assortment on customer level
* Co-creation of category growth strategy

The experience we're looking for

* Min. 2 years of Professional experience primarily in Trade Marketing and/or Category Management
* Experience in Sales will be perceived as an asset
* Must possess strong bias for action, ability to break down barriers and facilitate cross functional collaboration;
* Leadership skills in influencing customers as well as internal stakeholders to drive recommendations
* Ability to comprehensively understand and convert consumer, category and channel/customer insights into actionable recommendations
* Experience in working on Nielsen; Spaceman or other planogram app experience will be an asset
* Advanced English & Polish
* Passion for building and maintaining relationships
* Analytical skills and data acumen
* Advanced in Microsoft applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

The skills for success

Trade Marketing, Field sales; Field sales management, Ecommerce, Analysing sales and Ecommerce data, Leadership skills, Consumer Insights; Shopper Insights; Customer Insights; Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing, Consultative Selling, Customer strategy; Channel strategy, Sales strategy development, Perform product planning, Business acumen; financial acumen, commercial accumen, Sales negotiation, P&L Management, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.
We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in (COMPANY NAME)'s potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with (COMPANY NAME)'s pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law