Category & Shopper Manager Fmcg (retail)

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description


Cape TownPremium FMCG brand is hiringPosition PurposeThe vision for the Category & Shopper Marketing Team is to be a trusted team of Shopper & Category experts in confectionery that is central to providing strategic and short-term solutions to deliver Category growth, internally and externally. The Category team is living a category growth mindset, to grow faster and more sustainably than the category through superior understanding and fulfilment of consumer and shopper needs.Key Responsibilities

  • Lead shopper insight and category insights, leading key initiatives from project development, management to completion
  • Leadership for Category Vision and Drivers that enables customer teams to persuade key retail partners of the category strategy
  • Create and deliver short and long term shopper insight initiatives, as prioritized by the management team, to support MPD planning & specific segment challenges to turn shoppers into buyers of our brands
  • Leadership of brand / account workshops to enable the Marketing, Shopper Marketing & Sales teams to develop and sell the annual seasonal plans to our key retail partners
  • Lead the key cross functional Shopper Marketing projects
  • Coordination of both qualitative and quantitative consumer & shopper marketing research to lead new insights into the development of the category
  • Lead ongoing development of Category Vision, Drivers & Tactics, to engage our retail partners on the growth opportunities for the confectionery category
  • Through insight, lead and support customer marketing with new activation initiatives for brands to increase their visibility in store
  • Lead for Shopper Marketing contribution to the annual brand planning process
  • Support marketing team with shopper marketing insight/strategies that support new brand initiatives for existing and new products
  • Ensure that the identified shopper strategies play a core role in the company, category and brand long term plans
  • Support customer marketing team with category insight to lead new activation in store, both on and off the fixture.
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  • Planning and Review:
  • Provide support to the internal Brand and Key Account teams by conducting regular business analyses (with the focus on key strategic drivers and opportunities), presentations and merchandising solutions
  • Proactive management of team priorities
  • Build and develop internal reporting databases and templates
  • Manage cross-functional targets
  • Identify key trade opportunities including maximizing in-trade opportunities (ranging, distribution, merchandising and visibility)
  • Oversee development of Category Selling stories
  • Delivering commentaries and sales analysis for monthly business review reports, pro-actively identifying business opportunities and issues
  • Merchandising Input
  • Manage planograms & merchandising guidelines to support category shelving initiatives including the training thereof internally and externally
  • Responsible for updating space management product / image library & IRi data characteristics
  • Team Leadership
  • Training members of the cross functional team on data systems (Retailer POS, IRi)
  • Build effective working relationships and processes with the Sales and Marketing teams with the aim of driving incremental category and brand growth
  • Lead cross functional ways of working ultimately ensuring alignment to and focus on business objectives
Skills and Knowledge
  • Proven Category Management Expertise
  • Advanced MS Excel, IRi Temple & Space Planning Skills
  • Understanding shopper/consumer/market insights and how these drive category growth in retailers
  • Understanding of competitor and market dynamics
  • Excellent numeracy, analytical and data interpretation skills
  • Understanding brand and key account strategies and interpreting these into customized category plans
  • Implementing and evaluating category plans in-store
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, able to build relationships and influence at all levels internal and external
  • Confident, assertive self-starter with a drive for results and highly motivated
  • High level of initiative, able to drive projects independently
  • Structured with organizational skills
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
Requirements:
  • BComm Degree or suitable tertiary qualification
  • Previous experience in a customer-facing Category Management role, FMCG environment (minimum 5 years)
  • Prerequisites include advanced skills & working knowledge of external market data software and space planning software
  • Knowledge of and advanced skills in Microsoft Office (specifically Excel and PowerPoint)
As per our clients operational requirements, a clear credit and criminal history will apply

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1305635
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned