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Category Manager - Asda Dairy & Plant

Employer
Danone
Location
Our Danone hubs are located in London and Trowbridge
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
26 Aug 2022

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Category Management

Job Details

 About The Job

At Danone we operate Smart Working, this means that our Danoners are entrusted to balance the needs of their role, business, and stakeholder needs with their own personal choices on where and how they best do their work. We value output and personal contribution, enabling ‘Danoners’ to be their most energised, healthy, and productive selves. When team connection and collaboration is required, our hubs are located in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin.

Role Purpose

In this role you are responsible for building strong customer growth plans & recommendations in order to drive mutual benefits, whilst driving our category vision with key strategic partners to support Danone outperformance.

Role Focus

Priority Customer Management

  • Co-building a category strategy with priority customer to ensure their sustainable growth, based on Danone Category Vision and retailer strategy
  • Building strong relationships with stakeholders in priority customer to influence the Category strategy based on key insights & put an action plan in place to deliver
  • Working in advance with retailers to run range review processes across all their formats, from the objectives set up, implementation, to the performance review
  • Growing distribution and share of shelf for DUK to the benefit of the retailer's category
  • Analysing the results of range reviews (e.g. distribution changes, share of space, etc.) and the impact in the category (growth/decline by segment, brand performance, customer dynamics, etc.)

Category & Wider Customer Management 

  • Preparing and presenting category insight & recommendations
  • Leading Category Education projects internally in collaboration with the right departments & externally with priority customer stakeholders
  • Supporting Senior Category Manager with projects aligned to our Category Vision and in reaching total objectives across all channels 
  • Working on Dairy category projects across multiple customers

Team Engagement & Development

  • Supporting the junior members of the team through delivery management i.e., setting inspiring plans for activities and desired outcomes, engages the team on the ‘why’ of each project and coaching on the day-to-day challenge

 About You

As a successful Category Manager we would love to see you demonstrate -  

Leadership Expectations

  • Thinks beyond scope before making decisions that can impact others
  • Good relationship building skills
  • Able to work autonomously to find solutions to challenges
  • Able to build their network and can engage others through clear communication

Functional Capabilities

  • Good analytical & story telling capability
  • Able to manage and gain insight from a large data set
  • Ability to use questioning and listening to gain true customer needs

 About Us:

Danone are a world leader across 3 categories: Essential Dairy & Plant Based, Natural Sourced Waters and Specialised Nutrition, many of our consumer brands are household names, ranging from heritage brands like Cow & Gate and Harrogate Waters to international favourites like Actimel, Alpro and evian. In the UK & Ireland and in every market in which we operate, we are committed to delivering health through food and drink to as many people as possible.

We operate at 5 production sites as well as our 3 HUBS in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin - led by our people who power everything we do and are key to our success. We are a team of 2000+ Danoners, part of a 100,000 strong global family.

‘A force for good’, we are the first top 10 branded food and healthcare manufacturer in the UK & Ireland to certify as a B Corp. We are part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.

Our mission and values guide how we behave, our flexible ways of working, how we connect with our communities and how we grow & develop our people.​ We offer a competitive package including a double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance, flexible benefits and product vouchers.

As a global company, Danone serves a huge array of different communities, with different cultures, local tastes and habits. Our teams need to represent the diversity of these millions of people and we therefore encourage applications from all backgrounds and aim to create a workplace where our Danoners can be their true authentic selves.

Company

WHO WE ARE

In the UK & Ireland and in every market in which we operate, we are committed to delivering health through food and drink to as many people as possible. A world leader across 3 categories: Essential Dairy & Plant Based, Natural Sourced Waters and Specialised Nutrition, many of our consumer brands are household names and can be found in supermarkets and pharmacies. They range from heritage brands like Cow & Gate and Harrogate Waters to international favourites like Actimel, Alpro and evian. Find out more: https://www.danone.co.uk/

A FORCE FOR GOOD

B Corps (B Corporations) are mission-driven businesses operating as a force for good. They do business in ways that are not only good for their shareholders, but good for their employees, customers, communities, suppliers and the environment. Danone is proud to be on a B Corp certification journey for all our businesses worldwide. As a B Corp, we are part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.

INCLUSIVE DIVERSITY

Our ambition is to have every one at Danone feel included and able to contribute with their uniqueness, entrusting them to create new futures and drive the food revolution across the world. In the UK and Ireland, we have an active Inclusive Diversity forum open to all employees. The forum is responsible for delivering a regional roadmap which is built from employee feedback and insights, and regularly reviewed to ensure we are always responding to our employees’ needs.

 

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