Job Description
About the Position
We have an excellent opportunity available for an experienced Senior Category Development Manager to make a difference at Kraft Heinz.
The position lies within the Northern Europe business unit based in The Shard, London, managing our New Ventures categories. New Ventures is the innovation engine within our business, housing brands such as Amoy, Heinz pasta sauces, Tingly Ted's, and Just Spices, whilst also creating solutions to fuel growth within our core business of beans, soup and table sauces.
You'll be reporting into the Head of Category Development. You'll be working in an impactful team, alongside peers always trying to reach the next level. The relationship with external retailers, analysis of category performance and owning the range in some of the top 4 UK retailers will be your primary responsibilities.
In brief, you will be responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining strategic relationships with UK retailers to establish Kraft Heinz as the partner of choice
- Developing insight-led opportunities, driven by shopper needs to be able to drive and deliver category growth
- Ownership of the range and planograms in the trade to ensure optimum distribution and space allocation
- Liaising with internal Commercial, Marketing and Sales Leads to land NPD externally and effectively manage range optimisation across the trade
- Leading the rhythm of reporting and analyses of retailer, sub-category and product performance providing recommendations to improve category performance
- Being the voice of the customer internally to agitate, shape and influence future business agenda
- Create a category growth vision plan to influence the direction of our New Ventures categories in the next 5Y, collaborating with retailers to shape this view
- Partner with UK retailers to help overcome challenges eg: new HFSS regulation
Qualifications
Hard Skills
- Strong, proven experience in a category development, sales, commercial, RGM or trade marketing role
- Familiar with JDA, IRI, Kantar, retailer data systems eg: Dunhumby, Quantium (or similar)
- Highly numerate and strategic problem solver with the ability to analyze market, category and financial data to identify key trends and recommend creative solutions
- Evidence of agility and use of initiative to solve challenges
- Ideally, a Bachelor's or Master's degree
Professional Attributes
- Consumer and Customer Focus - You demonstrate a passion for the consumer and a genuine curiosity for the customer, thinking of innovative solutions to drive performance
- Communication Skills - At Kraft Heinz you will be exposed to senior management, no matter your level. Therefore, it's important you have excellent communication skills, to deal with all kinds of different stakeholders.
- Relationship building - You demonstrate a passion for people and can build strong collaborative relationships built on empathy and trust
- Analytical - We're a very data driven company. You know how to translate complex data into a simple solution with your analytical mindset.
- Project management skills - You're organized and structured and know how to bring multiple projects to a successful ending within the given timeframe.
- Team player - Which means you're sometimes a leader, sometimes a follower but always working towards the same common goal together with your teammates.
What we offer you
- An ambitious employer; we only want to the best for our people!
- Trainings and coaching to help develop your skills and behaviours
- A career track like only few other companies can match
- Flexible and hybrid working approach (3 from the office or with customers / 2 from home)
- Family-friendly and inclusive work environment
- Competitive benefits package to support mental, physical, financial and social well-being
- A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market)
- Always room for new ideas; if you have a good idea, please let us know, and we can set it in action!
Location(s)
London - The Shard
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.
What We Do
At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an enterprise where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams are in relentless pursuit to solve tangible problems for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve the problem on hand. In-turn, you can look forward to high-impact challenges, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial small teams, and a unique opportunity to create and build something bold, awesome, and impactful – all while honoring our 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic and emerging brands!
Why Work With Us
Our ambition is to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. You’ll invent the next wave of augmented intelligence products where software & humans work side-by-side to rethink every aspect of our company. You’ll make an imprint & leave your legacy on every part of our business.
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