Category Planning and Activation Manager - Modern Trade & E-Commerce

Manager - CP&A (MT & EComm)

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You provide compelling insights and engage with customers and key account teams. You identify and track category opportunities that support growth or defend risk and apply your insights for category, shopper, and consumer metrics when analyzing and translating data sources.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Responsible for the development and execution of selling programs related to their assigned Category's innovation, distribution, merchandising, and promotional plans
• Key linkage between the Customer Business Teams (CBTs) and the Category Innovation, Marketing and Equity teams to ensure that our strategies and tactics are aligned to the needs of our Customers
• Responsible for building category and customer plans for the assigned Category, working collaboratively with Category teams, Insights, and Customer Business Teams (CBTs)
• Be seen as the Category expert internally and create compelling, actionable & measurable category plans
• Provide thought leadership internally & externally around brand & category initiatives (promotional strategy / budget planning)
• Leading delivery of category dashboard / fundamentals and recommending corrective actions to ensure targets are met
• Ongoing assessment of critical baseline volume opportunities / risks and lead initiatives to optimize category performance

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Category development, key accounts and market insight analysis and delivering growth through category leadership
• Having a future-focused mindset, demonstrating curiosity about industry trends, digital solutions and innovation for consumers and translating opportunities into business plans
• Delivering strategic plans, measuring and monitoring results, and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
• Influence stakeholders and interacting effectively with others, with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
• Analytical skills and business acumen
• Proven experience in the fast-moving consumer goods field is a distinct advantage

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

This is a Role of Strategic Importance for Mondelez India Foods Ltd. The incumbent in this role will be responsible for
defining the Strategy and Activation Programs for the Modern Trade and E-Com Channels.

1. The Channels that the role manages contribute to a significant proportion of Mondelez's growth.
2. The incumbent will be responsible for working closely with the MT & E-com heads to deliver P&Ls - both top line andbottom line
3. The person in the role will also interface closely with the category teams to influence PPA & Category activation strategies towards the need of the channel

Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouth-watering and well-loved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates, Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages, Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits, and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers hands—and mouths. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has more than 3,300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country. We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 – the fourth time we’ve received this award.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type

RegularCategory Planning & ActivationSales

Experience Level

Mid Level