Strategic Category Manager (all genders)

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Category Manager @ MARS

Strategic Category Manager (all genders)

base location: Vienna (hybrid 50/50)
Salary: min. 2,295 EUR gross/month (for 19,25 hrs./week)

Reporting to the Category Development Head, this role is responsible for delivering best-in-class category leadership with our customers to drive confectionery growth and customer engagement. Using a mix of market, shopper and customer insights to identify category growth opportunities, the role leverages / executes these through excellence in all Category Leadership initiatives, tactics and practices.

What are we looking for?

• College degree, ideally business related.
• GS1/ECR Category Manager certification or equivalent.
• 3-5 years of professional experience, including category management, ideally some of it within the FMCG industry.
• Customer experience with ability to engage, influence and impact customers by providing guidance on strategic direction of category.
• Category Leadership expertise in relevant Category Management practices.
• Broad and in-depth understanding of FMCG context and retail landscape, ideally within the Austrian market.
• High analytical acumen with ability to drive and translate insights into relevant strategies and tactics (actions / initiatives) internally and for execution with our customers.
• Good understanding of corporate annual planning process within a corporation.
• Language fluency in both German and English required.

What will be your key responsibilities?

Key initiatives and deliverables of the role are to lead the development and execution of the category picture of success through strategic category plans, enabling us to build strong and sustainable category partnerships / captaincies for mutual, profitable and sustainable category growth.

• Deliver category vision through a clear 3-year strategy. Achieve competitive advantage through leveraging Mars and customer vision and strategies.
• Ensure collaborative category relationship to enable aligned account strategy plans.
• Deliver best-in-class Category Management by taking an objective total category perspective when providing market, consumer and shopper insights to customer/operational teams.
• Create category focused selling stories, identify listing opportunities/challenges, and provide merchandising solutions to maximize on-shelf delivery.
• Collaborate with insight colleagues to deliver in-depth account understanding.
• Understand and deploy vision to shelf for customer, leveraging pre-accomplished internal alignment behind customer category strategy.
• Identify and push forward tailored range opportunities.
• Ensure category growth and objectivity are at heart of all interactions with customers, delivering step change in customer engagement at all levels.

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