Assistant Category Manager

2 weeks ago

Hammarsdale, South Africa Rainbow Recruitment Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:

- To support the Category Manager in delivery of administration, analytics and Go-To-Market initiatives to achieve category volume and profit objectives.
- Assist with developing and implementing customer/ channel specific category plans based on category and shopper insights to grow market share within category.
- To engage with key internal stakeholders to ensure execution excellence through all key Demand Functions.

**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
- Analytical
- Two years customer facing, account management experience will be an advantage
- Two years brand building experience will be an advantage

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Category & Business Performance**
- Coordination and consolidation of multi-channel 4P audits to track compliance and competitor activity.
- Support the CCM’s in preparation of regular Customer Reviews in order to explain performance shortfalls and identify growth dynamics.
- Monitor category, competitor, and brand activation levels by account, evaluate ROI and strategic alignment, and identify correlations with performance.

**Reporting**
- Fulfill daily, weekly, and monthly reporting needs of the BU.
- Create & improve reports as needed.
- Use a critical eye to provide insights and analysis on reporting.
- Translate insights into business building opportunities within specific customer/channels

**Competitive 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.

**Price Optimization**
- Routinely track category, competitor and brand pricing across channels identifying key trends and compliance gaps.
- Support the planning and implementation of PI’s

**Annual Business Planning**
- Assist the Category Manager to develop and provide category level insights into the Brand Plans & Customer Plans process.
- Match brand objectives with customer/market needs.

**Go to Market Excellence**
- Run customer specific category management projects.
- Undertake regular range reviews by store cluster to identify issues and opportunities to improve productivity and strategic alignment.
- Support the Category Manager on design, production, distribution, execution and tracking of GTM initiatives.
- Lead all new innovation forecasts and tracking.
- Manage, consolidate, review, and track promotional calendar.
- Work with field sales team to ensure excellence in in-store activation.

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

**Trade Credentials**
- Support the Category Manager in the preparation of Category Stories and Trade Presentations. Execute brand standards (brand DNA) and support development and execution of channel specific brand standards.

**Business Processes**
- Build effective collaborative working relationships and procedures with marketing, national accounts, ops, supply chain and external agencies.
- Provide support to Account Manager in monitoring and analysing retail margins and customer profitability.

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