Job Description:
As a Category Manager, you will partner with our customers to strengthen collaboration and execute the cluster MW Category Strategy. You will analyze external data and customer insights to develop proposals that capitalize on category growth opportunities.
What will be your key responsibilities?Deploy category vision in the market with our customers
Lead initiatives for our key growth platforms related to shelf/category management
Execute projects that customers want to drive and need our support
Business Partner KAM to agree and drive bold actions per customer, for growing our category
Drive market intelligence in the market
Attend Quarterly KAM meeting with Activation & SRM TPE to agree on account plan
Provide inputs to planning cycles
Search for continuous improvements in local reporting
Minimum 2-3 years Demand or Sales experience
Business Acumen and high numerical ability
Proven track record in insight-driven storytelling and resulting actions
Fluency in English
Drive for Results
Planning & Communication skills
Customer Focus
What can you expect from Mars?
Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Top Skills
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
