Commercial Activation Manager Nutrition
- Employer
- PepsiCo
- Location
- Sweden
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 27 Feb 2017
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Our business in the Nordics;
The 25 million people living in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark are no strangers to PepsiCo's portfolio of juice, grains, snacks, carbonated and non -carbonated beverages. Our brands Pepsi Max, Mountain Dew, Tropicana, Crüesli, Havrefras, Solgryn, Lay's and Doritos enjoy strong positions within the marketplace and are loved by consumers throughout the geography.
We have three offices located across the Nordic region - in Oslo, Copenhagen and Helsinki. We are a highly motivated team of 40 employees, with a clear ambition to retain and develop our great work environment and strong business performance.
Job Description
In PepsiCo Nordics we are now looking for an experienced Commercial Manager to join our Commercial Nutrition team. You will be responsible for the Juice and Grains categories in Sweden and Iceland working with strong brands like Tropicana and Quaker Havrefras.
Furthermore, you will have a Commercial Activation Manager Nutrition reporting in to you supporting your function and to ensure the delivery of strong quarterly in-store activation agenda (BTL / Trade Marketing).
In this role you can be located in our office in Copenhagen or Oslo.
Key responsibilities
Job requirements
- Build collaborative strategic relationships with our distribution partners, prepare regular distributor review meetings and ensure interaction with different disciplines / levels
- Deliver volume, net revenue and profit objectives
- Lead and develop strong annual commercial plans with distribution partners for the responsible markets to capture market opportunities across designated markets and categories
- Lead long term joint business planning sessions with our distribution partners
- Handle and analyse portfolio to ensure optimize mix in accordance with P&L, consumer trends and competition.
- Implement aligned commercial & marketing agenda through synchronized activities and budgets between the two function through strong coordination with commercial activation and marketing managers
- Support innovation projects by providing input for the commercial function and engage as required with category team, the Sr. Commercial Manager Nutrition and the Nordic leadership team on commercial initiatives, brand strategy, innovation and other category building programs or projects
- Facilitate monthly integrated sales and operating planning meeting (i-S&OP) to deliver topline growth plans through aligned demand plan and to identify mitigation plans.
- Be gatekeeper of critical timelines for our distributors ensuring readiness of all commercial activities / new projects / launches for trade windows, sales cycles and other key deadlines of distributors
- People management responsibility for Commercial Activation Manager. Ensure that PepsiCo people processes are followed and that we develop and grow our talents.
Professional experience/skills
- Have minimum 7 years FMCG experience preferably within a top 5 player with branded products
- In-depth understanding of the Nordic retail environment
- Proven track record of leading edge sales capabilities
- Experience with people management and talent development
- Experience with development of commercial plans and strategic joint-business planning
- Ability to decode problems and articulate challenge simply and effectively with clear proposals
- Excellent influential presentation and communication skills as the role require extensive internal and external interaction
- Strong strategic and analytical skills
- Excellent time and project management skills
- Solid knowledge on how to use Nielsen and GfK data
- Fluency in English and preferably one of the Nordic languages (DK/NO/SE)
- Personal attributes
- Energetic, enthusiastic and can-do mentality
- Confident self-starter : ability to work independently and without detailed guidance
- Strong relationship builder and team player
- Results-oriented
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Cost conscious / challenger
- Ability to work independently with complex projects with input from various stakeholders
What we offer
An opportunity in a global company, with strong brands and values, competitive compensation and benefits, a flexible work style, an open door culture and highly energetic and inspiring colleagues.
For more information, have a look at our Career web site;
http://www.pepsico.com/Careers/Why-Work-at-PepsiCo.html
About PepsiCo Inc.
PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient snacks, foods and beverages - home to some of the best loved and iconic brands around the world. We are 300,000 game changers, mountain movers and history makers, scattered among 200 countries and united by a shared set of values and goals.
Our employees are at the heart of PepsiCo. Through the Company's commitment to Talent Sustainability, we continue to support the development of employees. Possibilities, our employment brand, reinforce our commitment to our people; enabling them to reach new heights in their careers and becoming truly world class talents. PepsiCo is universally recognized as one of the best companies in the world for leadership development.
Company
PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.
Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com
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