Customer Category Manager
Nestle
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Gatwick • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Responsible for the development, management and execution of our Customer Category Plans for a number of retailers across Mults, Value Retailers & Wholesale & Convenience.
- Building external relationships, you will be the first port of call and a trusted source for Buying/Merchandising Teams for any category questions, insight & recommendations.
- Execution of Nestle Category Strategy, personalisation of the Category Strategy to meet the retailer’s needs and generate engagement and commitment.
- Executing the Category Drivers for the channel within your customer via the delivery of the POP Vision, through adjacency & flow recommendations to retailers at range reviews and throughout the year.
- Deliver best in class insight, engaging retailers with promotional insight to influence the effective use of promotions, developing and implementing best in class examples of latest online and in store executions.
- Deep understanding of the role of the Shopper within your Customer.
- Lead the Category agenda within the ICP process, ensuring our internal plans are fit for purpose for our customers.
- Closely monitor industry and competitor activity, to ensure our strategic commercial vision is in line with market demands in a constantly changing, competitive environment that we work in.
Requirements
- Category or Sales experience, with a demonstrable record of success in delivering growth for Nestlé & our customers.
- Strong data analysis and ability to draw out the key insights along with recommended actions to be taken.
- Ability to build strong relationships internally and externally within matrix and multifunctional teams.
- Understand the importance of working in a customer centric way.
- Evidence of flexibility and agility and use of initiative to solve challenges rapidly and often creatively.
- Love of learning, understanding 'why?' and ability to share this both externally and internally in a compelling way.
Benefits
- Attractive Salary + potential bonus + other fantastic benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
data analysiscategory managementsales strategypromotional insightcustomer engagementmarket analysiscategory driversretail executioninsight generationperformance metrics
Soft skills
relationship buildingcustomer centricityflexibilityagilityinitiativecreativitycommunicationcollaborationproblem solvinglearning orientation