Category Manager Jr MTY
Location: Guadalajara
Lugar de trabajo: Monterrey]
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in 55 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? Nearly 35,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers, and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding
About the position:
In Ferrero we work with great ideas to win the hearts of many families in the world, and you can be part of the team that contributes to make Ferrero brands even more extraordinary, we are looking for a Category Manager Jr. This position will involve responsibility for our key clients with a national footprint. Managing Retail Captaincies requires a high level of influence, negotiation, and a long-term business development mindset.
Main responsibilities:
You will identify opportunities through POS categories, profits, and shelf organization with sales information (internal and external).
You will lead monthly forums by category and client, make face-to-face executive presentations with clients, sales and category teams (internal and external).
You will develop planogram strategies by customer and category to generate impact on profits, days of supply, turnover, and fair distribution.
Lead projects and ensure implementation for each category orienting customers and our sales force
Create effective assortments for customers skus, catalogs, and develop appropriate recommendations to achieve category growth.
Control sales databases and segment skus, according to the Ferrero Category classification for Confectionery and Spreads portfolio.
Who we are looking for:
- Min. Degree in Marketing, Industrial Engineer, Business Administration or similar.
- 3+ years of experience in Category
- Advanced English
- Planogramming software (space planning or spaceman)
- Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative market research techniques, including pre and post-test advertising, segmentation, concept tests, tracking etc.
- Experience with Soriana
- Excel and Power Point skills
- Results-oriented, analytical, proactive, responsible, business-oriented and with strong influence skills
How to succeed in the workplace and in Ferrero
Consumers, quality and service are the key to everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you will need to be as consumer- and product-oriented as we are: dedicated to achieving good results for customers around the world.