Category Manager (m/f/d) Mass Market, befristet auf 12 Monate - Military veterans preferred

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question. 

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for co-defining and implementing Category Management strategies for customers in the relevant categories. You will proactively deliver compelling insights and category arguments that give confidence to our stakeholders that Haleon as category expert understands how to drive long term sustainable category growth.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Customizing the local category vision & strategy and providing support for the customers in developing a long-term plan for the categories
• Leads category thinking and execution within Germany and Austria for a customer or group of customers via aggregating multiple resources of data to deliver insights, trends and recommendations. 
• Establishes and strong category relationships with top customers to ensure customer requirements are built into joint business planning process and customer marketing strategies
• Providing strong support to deliver in market execution of the category plan and proactively review performance: provide customer sell-in stories to win & defend listings and track performance of NPDs to derive recommendations and further growth potential
• Providing best in class assortment and shelf management services to identify potentials at customer level 
• Collaborating with the commercial teams to enhance business planning and being a core member of a cross functional commercial team to deliver the annual negotiations with customers and ongoing customer interactions
• Tracking performance in the market, developing your insights and landing these internally and externally to drive performance. Works cross functionally to also evaluate promotion performance and mechanics and their associated impact on the category and performance
• Leverages all the resources available within Haleon as needed to deliver the performance such as the Shopper Science Lab and its varied Tech solutions, Regional Category Development teams and Global Marketing Channel resources

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• University degree in business administration, economics or related
• Strong track record of category management within a FMCG organization, account management experience is a plus
• Ability to influence and inspire others to deliver business results
• Ability to navigate complex situations and challenge the status quo with a can-do attitude
• Well-grounded knowledge in applying category management tools
• Strong analytical skills
• Highly passionate, innovative and results driven personality
• Strong collaboration & stakeholder management skills, demonstrated in excellent management of internal and external stakeholders (e.g. agencies)

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Strategic thinking and true understanding of the shopper – experienced in transforming shopper insights into compelling category stories and channel plans
• Channel know-how of Mass Market (Drug, Grocery, Discount and dCom)
• Self-reliant, decisive, and resilient and able to respond and adapt to a fast moving changing environment

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

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