Category Strategy Lead AMEA

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.

• The Category Manager role supports AMEA’s Category growth agenda, ensuring Category First thinking is applied within the business and at the forefront of customer partnerships.
• Category Growth is a key pillar within the Growth Wheel framework, linking insights to Mondelez’s commercial strategies
• This position (reporting to the Head of Category Strategy and Customer Engagement AMEA) is critical to building organizational capability in developing and executing Category Growth Strategies and partnering with retail customers across the Asia, Middle East & Africa (AMEA) region, spanning some 20+ markets.
  
  
  

How You Will Contribute

You will:

• Support Head of Category Strategy and Customer Engagement in facilitating Category Growth Strategy workshops, guiding markets to unearth drivers and gain alignment
• Ensure market strategies are grounded in insight, leveraging consumer, category and shopper data available. Partner with the insights team to maximize our understanding of the category fundamentals
• Help markets translate Category Growth Strategies into 6P activations - Proposition, Product, Promotion, Placement, Promotion, Pricing, leading to impactful executions in the market
• Support growth opportunities sizing, coaching markets on how to utilize data and assumptions to compute an opportunity
• Elevate Category management capability, training markets to optimize category performance using best-in-class principles
• Upskill markets in customer partnership management leveraging the Mondelēz Joint Value Creation Framework
• Elevate AMEA’s Advantage Group Survey process – ensuring markets are developing robust Action plans to action feedback. Collate and summarize report findings.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing amongst the markets.
  
  
  

What You Will Bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Strong track record of success in FMCG - cross functional exposure across sales, category /CP&A, RGM and marketing highly beneficial
• Comprehensive understanding of Category Management principles
• Adept at facilitating cross-functional workshops and presenting to large teams
• Experience building Category Growth Strategies – from insight through to execution
• Experience working with consumer, category and shopper data from agencies like Nielsen, Kantar, Spaceman/Blue Yonder/JDA
• Demonstrated abilities in analytics and problem solving with strong commercial acumen
• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written) and advanced influencing skills
• Advanced project management skills
• Regional experience is highly regarded
  
  
  

Experience & Qualification Required:

• At least 8 years of work experience within FMCG businesses, across commercial sales, marketing, insights, strategy or category roles.
• Full time MBA/PGDM from a premier institute is mandatory
• Experience building long term Category strategies, influencing internal decision making as well as customers
• Experience with Spaceplanning software, Nielsen, Euromonitor is preferred
  
  
  

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Leadership Competencies -

• Drive for results
• Commercial acumen
• Time management
• Integrity & trust
• Interpersonal savvy
• Peer relationships
• Problem solving mindset
• Action orientated
  
  
  

Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy

Business Unit Summary

Headquartered in Singapore, Mondelēz International’s Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region is comprised of six business units, has more than 21,000 employees and operates in more than 27 countries including Australia, China, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. Seventy-six nationalities work across a network of more than 35 manufacturing plants, three global research and development technical centers and in offices stretching from Auckland, New Zealand to Casablanca, Morocco. Mondelēz International in the AMEA region is the proud maker of global and local iconic brands such as Oreo and belVita biscuits, Kinh Do mooncakes, Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka chocolate, Halls candy, Stride gum, Tang powdered beverage and Philadelphia cheese. We are also proud to be named a Top Employer in many of our markets.

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.

Job Type

Regular

Category Planning & Activation

Sales