Category Manager

Sector: Consumer Goods

Company: Multinational Company

QUALIFICATIONS

• University graduate in business administration, marketing, economy, engineering or other relevant facultees
• Work experience in an international company, with min. 7 years experience in the relevant field
• Catalogue planning skills
• At least several years of professional experience in managing people
• Software skills: Microsoft Office
• Fluent in both verbal and written English

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Effectively lead category team in order to have an engaged and high performance team
• Discover market and consumer trends, insights. Identify potential product portfolio gaps and opportunities to request country specific products
• Closely track competitive activity
• Adapt global category strategy according to regional needs and insights
• Manage SOL to ensure  optimum productive SOL
• Champion the categories and the brands to build competitive product positioning and sustainable category sales/margin, inline with the global strategies but taking into account regional differences
• Work in close cooperation with the Creative Team to ensure creative executions are supporting company brands’/subbrands’ positioning
• Track category/brand/segment information continuously and ensure revision in plans when necessary