Assistant Category Manager

4 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa RCL FOODS Careers Full time

At **RCL FOODS** we see and do things differently, we think bigger, work smarter and as a team collectively work towards achieving our ambition, to Grow What Matters

Our Talent Team is currently looking for an experienced, enthusiastic **Assistant Category Manager **within our dynamic, high-performing Customer Team. The role will be based in **Pretoria West** and will report to the **Category Manager**.

**RCL Foods** entrusts the Assistant Category Manager to support the Category Manager in delivery of administration, analytics and Go-To-Market initiatives to achieve category volume and profit objectives. Accountable for gathering, compiling and analysing customer, category consumer, shopper and channel performance, trends and competitive intelligence. To engage with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure execution excellence through all key Demand Functions.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Category & Business Performance**:
Coordination and consolidation of modern trade channel 4P audits to track compliance and competitor activity.

Train and briefing of instore promoters as per planner.

Daily monitoring of activations.

Weekly analysis of activation performance.

Collate market insights gathered from planned activations.

Tracking of POS placement.

Analyse shelf health, product availability (DOD), category insights and planogram compliance (perfect store).

Production of reports, presentations and other items deemed necessary to support the sales function.

**Competitor Intelligence**:
Gather information to support the development of a fact based and visionary category scope and construct and platform of category and brand growth drivers that provide incremental scope for category and business growth.

**Annual Business Planning**:
Assist the Category Manager to develop and provide category level insights into the Brand Plans & Customer Plans process.

**NPD Launches**:
Execute all NPD launches. Manage, consolidate, review and track promotional calendar.

Liaise with the operations team to ensure smooth implementation.

**Category Budget**:
Administrate and track spend against budget and evaluate ROI on category GTM initiatives.

Business Processes: Build effective collaborative working relationships and procedures with marketing, national accounts, ops, supply chain and external suppliers.

Sourcing of promotional collateral.

Planning and execution of Trade Shows as required.

**Minimum Requirements**:
Business and or Marketing related Degree or equivalent qualification.

Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in related FMCG environment.

Proven track record of successful trade engagement and collaboration.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Organized, problem analysis and problem-solving.

Collaboration and a team player.

Excellent Excel skills and formal presentation skills.

Business acumen skills.

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