Description
 
Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?
 
What you become a part of
 
In an increasingly competitive and challenging market place, at CCEP we see the role of the Category Planning as pivotal to delivering our business performance. The team has been re-structured to ensure that we can deliver an inspiring & insightful vision for soft drinks category, today and in the future.  In order to unlock growth, we need our team to be analytical, forward thinking and great influencers to work in partnership with our customers.
As a Category Planning Manager you will be responsible for one of the Top 4 Grocery Account’s, working in partnership with the customer and a long side the CCE Customer account team to unlock growth potential. Using shopper & category insight, you will develop Strategic Category plans with the customer, targeting opportunities to deliver category growth.  You will also work closely with Range & space team and the shopper marketing team to deliver activation plans against these opportunities.
 
 
What to expect
 
Key responsibilities include;

- Create and lead the Customer’s Joint Category Business Plan. This will involve engaging the relevant CCE and Customer senior stakeholders to identify Category Growth initiatives, using CCE’s Category Vision as a guiding principle to help identify & implement bespoke Category activations over the short and long term (3 year vision).

- Management of the day-to-day customer Insights and category performance agenda, through timely response to questions around Category strategy, and delivery of the weekly reporting cycle.

- Support to the internal CCE Customer Trading team, providing relevant and timely insight around the drivers of CCE and Category performance within the Customer. Including the delivery of key reports to enable their understanding of CCE’s customer and market performance.

- Responsible for inputting and where possible leading the Customer’s Range Review process, working in conjunction with the Customer’s Merchandising teams and CCEP’s Range & Space team, to understand how best to tailor their range to take advantage of shopper and category trends.

- Work closely with the CCE Business Intelligence team which will provide headline macro, market and Category insight that you will then use to tailor to your specific account.

- In conjunction with our Growth initiatives team you will work collaboratively to shape Customer selling stories for key brand and product innovations.

- Opportunity to work with our European Category Planning team to understand best practice Category Management principles from other countries and retailers, and apply that to your customer locally.
 
Qualifications
 
What we expect of you
 
To be successful in this role you need to demonstrate excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, have an eye for detail and be confident in communicating with and influencing senior level stakeholders and customers. 

You will be highly analytical and able to interpret data into actionable insight.  Not only being able to say what happened in terms of Category and CCE performance in the customer, but what were the drivers behind that, and how CCE and the customer should be responding.
You will have demonstrated commercial /marketing experience and would want to develop your career further in Category Management.
 
Application
 
If this role is of interest to you please upload a recent copy of your CV and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.
www.cokecce.com/careers
 
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