Bakery Category Planning Specialist (Temporal)

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You ensure that customer plans are developed and executed by supporting the delivery of strategies and tactics for growth. You understand the business metrics and financial drivers needed to unlock profitable growth for Mondelēz International and our customers and work with key account managers to implement plans to deliver our annual target.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Lead the development of the trade marketing part of the category annual plans (contract process)
• Understand market dynamics / consumer insights by channel to participate on trade marketing strategic decisions
• Lead the business planning meeting where the sales quotas are built in order to accomplish the annual plans based on relevant building blocks
• Suggest and influence investment in category building blocks, according to category and channel need, and is accountable of execution excellence at point of sale
• Follow up the competition’s commercial activity in the category in order to detect business opportunities and potential threats for the brand
• Play a leadership role within the multi categories teams by leading, providing accurate and relevant channel point of sale information that will lead to find business opportunities such as innovations, customer promotions, portfolio, pricing, etc. that will lead to achieve multi categories targets

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Category planning and delivering growth through category leadership
• Having a future-focused mindset, being curious about industry trends, digital solutions and innovation for consumers, and translating opportunities into business plans
• Developing and delivering plans, measuring and monitoring results and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
• Business planning and how to maximize revenue growth
• Influencing stakeholders and interacting effectively with others with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
• Analytical skills and business acumen

More about this role

You will:

• Own process, governance & communication for the Picture of success across Retail environments (MT & TT Channels) & categories.

• Define the picture of success per channel and category & develop market selling materials together with shopper insights and category insights.

• Define MSL for each channel using the tools available.

• Define category-led selling stories for RE's which enable category growth (category management) and the achievement of our KPIs per channel.

• Business planning of the Q+1 (Plan de categories, Quarterly sales meeting, etc) Leading and implementing innovation from launching, monitoring and tracking.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills – and able to understand, interpret and convey information from data

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

Job specific requirements:

• 5-6 years of professional experience in a similar role;

• Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment, preferably in food or other fast moving, dynamic industry;

• Fluent English (written and verbal);

• Solid knowledge of Excel (Power BI experience is a plus);

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing or a related field.





Relocation Support Available?

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

Our people make all the difference in our succes

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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Job Type

Temporary (Fixed Term)

Category Planning & Activation

Sales