Join Mondelēz International as a Commercial Category Lead (F/M/X) in a full-time, regular role with flexible location options across Europe. In this position, you will lead the development and execution of category plans, connect customer business teams with marketing strategies, and act as the internal category expert to drive business growth.
Requirements
Experience in category development, key accounts, and market insight analysis.
Proven experience in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) field is a distinct advantage.
Strong analytical skills, business acumen, and the ability to influence stakeholders.
No specific degree or minimum years of experience strictly mandated in the posting.
Skills & Responsibilities
Market insight analysis: Leverages data to identify and track category opportunities that support growth and defend risk.
Strategic planning: Builds and executes category and customer plans aligned with innovation, distribution, merchandising, and promotional objectives.
Stakeholder engagement: Acts as a key linkage between Customer Business Teams and Category Innovation, Marketing, and Equity teams.
Performance monitoring: Delivers category dashboard fundamentals and recommends corrective actions to ensure targets are met.
Potential transition routes: People from Key Account Manager or Brand Manager roles may bring strong stakeholder management and strategic planning skills, alongside meeting commercial experience requirements.
Job description
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 provide compelling insights and engage with customers and key account teams. You identify and track category opportunities that support growth or defend risk and apply your insights for category, shopper, and consumer metrics when analyzing and translating data sources.
How you will contribute
You will:
Responsible for the development and execution of selling programs related to their assigned Category's innovation, distribution, merchandising, and promotional plans
Key linkage between the Customer Business Teams (CBTs) and the Category Innovation, Marketing and Equity teams to ensure that our strategies and tactics are aligned to the needs of our Customers
Responsible for building category and customer plans for the assigned Category, working collaboratively with Category teams, Insights, and Customer Business Teams (CBTs)
Be seen as the Category expert internally and create compelling, actionable & measurable category plans
Provide thought leadership internally & externally around brand & category initiatives (promotional strategy / budget planning)
Leading delivery of category dashboard / fundamentals and recommending corrective actions to ensure targets are met
Ongoing assessment of critical baseline volume opportunities / risks and lead initiatives to optimize category performance
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
Category development, key accounts and market insight analysis and delivering growth through category leadership
Having a future-focused mindset, demonstrating curiosity about industry trends, digital solutions and innovation for consumers and translating opportunities into business plans
Delivering strategic plans, measuring and monitoring results, and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
Influence stakeholders and interacting effectively with others, with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
Analytical skills and business acumen
Proven experience in the fast-moving consumer goods field is a distinct advantage
There is flexibility regarding the location of this position in Europe. Other locations are also possible.
The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland .
No Relocation support available, however for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy
Business Unit Summary
At Mondelez Europe, we are proud, not only of the iconic brands we make, but also of the people who make them. Our delicious products are created in 52 plants across Europe by more than 28,000 passionate people. We are the top maker of chocolate and biscuits and a leading maker of gum and candy. We make sure our powerful global brands and local jewels like Cadbury, Milka and Alpen Gold chocolates, Oreo, belVita, LU and Tuc biscuits get safely into our customers hands—and mouths. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.
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.
