Category Manager: Growth

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa PepsiCo Full time

**Responsibilities**- Build trusted advisor for MT & TT customers, demonstrating knowledge and strategic thinking and alignment.- Analyse multiple data sets to provide category insight on drivers of performance of both the overall category and top MT customers, providing benchmarking, strategies and potential tactics to capitalise on mutually beneficial growth opportunities.- Create customer centric category visions leveraging the DX operating model (Identify, Engage, Convert, Optimize) to gain alignment and support from stakeholders, both internally and externally to enable Category Captaincy and long-term partnership.- Support customers on long term strategy reviews with end-to-end connected plans that incorporate shopper insights, category management ans shopper marketing suite.- Secure trusted advisor status by demonstrating PepsiCo's insight and thinking and drive long term win-win solutions for PepsiCo and the customer through shopper and channel centric strategies and plans. **Qualifications**- Tertiary Qualification in a Commercial, Business or Statistical field coupled with previous exposure to FMCG environment (Understanding of the retailer landscape, and instore challenges) and at least 3 years’ experience across data analysis, strategy creation, category management- Accuracy and attention to detail- Problem-solving skills- Interpersonal and influencing skills- Teamworking skills- Written and verbal communication skills to take others with and act on asks- A methodical and logical approach- The ability to plan work and meet tight deadlines- A good level of mathematical ability- The ability to analyse, model and interpret data- Advanced customer and internal sales data experience- Experience in Marketing and/or Category Management- Advanced knowledge of the end to end GTM value chain from production to shelf - including optimization **“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act"

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