Category Development Specialist

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.

As our Category Development Specialist, you’ll be a key function within our Revenue Growth Team in the commercial side of the business. In a high performing team, you will analyze the market through different KPIs to create strong plans for the future. 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.
You will have an opportunity to work with great tasting brands like Marabou, TUC, OREO, Philadelphia.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Leads the development of the trade marketing part of the category annual plans (contract process)
• Understands market dynamics / consumer insights by channel to participate on trade marketing strategic decisions
• Leads the business planning meeting where the sales quotas are built in order to accomplish the annual plans based on relevant building blocks
• Suggests and influences investment in category building blocks, according to category and channel need, and is accountable of execution excellence at point of sale
• Follows up the competition’s commercial activity in the category in order to detect business opportunities and potential threats for the brand
• Plays 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 management 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 & market performance
• 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

• Education / Certifications:
  Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Economics, Engineering or other relevant field is required.
• Job specific requirements:
  Excellent analytical capabilities
  Transfer insights to clear actions and act as a project manager to secure execution
  Highly proficient communication and presentation skills
  Strong collaborative and cooperative approach.
• Experience in category management and delivering growth through category leadership is required.
• Experience of FMCG market is required.
• Language
  Full professional fluency in Swedish and English (written and spoken) is required.
• Work schedule
  Fulltime based in Upplands Väsby office.
• Travel requirements: not required
• Work schedule: 100%
• Knowledge of Nilsen data is meriting.
• No relocation support available.
  

We offer:

• Health & Benefits: Friskvårdsbidrag (Wellness allowance), on-site gym, health check-ups at age intervals, and subsidized on-site massage and chiropractor.

• Food & Shopping: Subsidized lunch in our canteen and favorable discounts in our staff shop.

• Easy Everyday Life: Fenced parking for all on-site employees and comprehensive employee support for health, work, and private life.

• Security: Collective agreement, contractual insurance, occupational health care, and extra compensation for parental leave.

• Community: art association and social activities.





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

Regular

Category Planning & Activation

Sales