Category Manager

SUMMARY:
Great opportunity exists with a manufacturing giant offering career growth and excellent package.

POSITION INFO:

Key responsibilities will include:

Category Management:

• Analyse shelf health and pricing data
• Monitor product availability, visibility and affordability and consolidate feedback into actionable plans for the customer team to implement
• Use and leverage specific category insights
• Execute brand standards (brand DNA) and support development and execution of channel-specific brand standards
• Measure and review category performance
• Clean and analyse scan data provided by customers/distributors
• Create specific shelf planograms for customers/categories, ensuring fair share of shelf
• Conduct periodic updates of planograms with new launches
• Conduct periodic reviews of planograms and ranging to ensure maximised shelf efficiency
• Communicate with all account management and sales operations on any implementation initiatives to ensure smooth operation execution

Information Analysis, Management and Reporting

• Provide detailed and precise reports to illustrate trends, predictions and relevant strategies
• Analyse and interpret key data
• Provide regular reports on category results
• Assist in the production of reports, data, presentations

New Product Launching:

• Develop and deliver new product launch plans in the trade, with required analysis and feedback.
• Support new product introductions for listing into mix.

Customer Relationship Management:

• Ensure that critical customer information is available to the customer team
• Identify customer information requirements
• Follow up and ensure that sales team initiatives (customer plans) are effectively implemented with the identified customers
• Prepare, analyse and present category reviews to customers and interact with customers on assortment analysis, category performance and ranging

Category Planning:

• Support the annual joint business planning process through data analysis and opportunity identification
• Run customer-specific category management projects
• Integrate research insights into the category process for actionable on-ground deliverables
• Develop proposals and recommendations for customers in executing category management projects
• Drive category management projects
• Liaise with the operations team to ensure smooth implementation

Performance Evaluation:

• Measure and review category performance and customer profitability
• Compile and consolidate business dashboards, scorecards and measurement
• Conduct category performance / deviation analysis
• Identify opportunities.

Financial Management:

• Manage the trade show budgets within agreed limits and ensure that all initiatives are shown to be commercially sound
• Meet budgetary targets

The ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:

• Degree or diploma in marketing or business management
• 3 years’ experience in a similar environment
• Valid Code EB drivers’ licence.

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South African Citizens only.

Due to the volumes of applications received – correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates. If you have not received a response within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful

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