B&W Category Strategy

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Job Purpose
The category growth strategy and shopper marketing specialist will ensure category and channel plans are well defined and adapted to meet customer needs. This involves accountability to ensure platform / category verticals objectives are delivered via channel & customer growth strategies & supported by holistic trade investment. You will ensure our category growth strategy is reflected in all customer and market plans, directly impacting the shopper experience – working closely with platform marketing & CSP & delivering via CBD teams.

What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be

• Category Growth Strategies
• Localize (Develop and deploy) CGS at channel and customer level.
• Category Growth Management
• Align and quantify CVDs to high value shoppers (on & off-line)
• Deliver Insight driven Shelf/e-shelf design
• Own Objective Assortment Optimization & Space Planning (NRM Lever 2&3)
• Innovation
• Alignment upfront to CGS
• Story and fit for channel and customer
• Shopper Insights & Strategy
• Identify the high value shopper through actionable insights
• Create Shopper Marketing plans for Strategic customers and channels
• Customer Management
• Own and develop relationships using Shopper insight for competitive advantage at the point of purchase (on & off-line)
• Visibility
• Define and develop high impact Category Growth Activities
• D4C/D4R
• Customer & Channel specific/Omni solutions
• Capability
• Data & Insight across channels
• Key member of internal CoP

Experiences & Qualifications
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• 2-3 years relevant Category & Customer experience
• 1-2 years Account management experience is an advantage
• Customer Facing experience combined with Brand Building experience is ideal
• Shopper Marketing or Brand Building experience is desirable
• Experience in TCM is preferred

Skills
Innovation mindset

Commerce channels execution and digital business models

Commercial Strategy and Business Acumen /NRM

Category Growth Management

Data-Drive Mindset

Entrepreneurial Leadership

Digital Commerce

Customer and Retailer Understanding

Customer Relationship

Stakeholder Management

Process Thinking (Discipline)

Strategic Thinking

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

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