Job Location
KYIV GENERAL OFFICEJob Description
Join P&G’s Sales Operations & Market Strategy Team as Senior Category & Brand Growth Manager
P&G is seeking a passionate and driven Senior Category & Brand Growth Manager to lead one of our top categories in Ukraine. This critical role acts as the local business leader for their assigned category, driving both commercial excellence and brand growth. You will be the definitive expert on Ukrainian consumers and customer channels, developing and executing winning strategies that deliver significant sales growth, market share expansion, and shape broader Central Europe business plans.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Lead Local Category Strategy: Develop and execute comprehensive annual business plans for the assigned category, integrating brand, consumer, and commercial strategies specific to the Ukrainian market.
- Become Market Expert: Be the go-to authority on consumer insights, channel dynamics, and customer needs in Ukraine, translating this knowledge into actionable strategies.
- Drive Sales & Market Share Growth: Champion and lead initiatives specifically designed to boost net sales and expand brand market share across all relevant channels.
- Strategic Communication & Media Management: Define communication priorities and actively shape the UA media plan in partnership with brand and media teams, ensuring effective reach and message delivery.
- Elevate In-Store Execution: Define and implement "must-have" display and merchandising excellence standards to improve shelf impact and enhance the shopper experience.
- Lead Enhanced Business Planning (EBP): Drive the EBP cycle, partnering closely with sales teams to develop joint business plans with key customers and ensure flawless in-market execution.
- Implement Trade Budgets: manage and optimize spend across Distribution, Shelving, Displays, and Promotions.
- Influence Regional Strategy: Leverage local insights and performance to actively influence and contribute to broader Central Europe business strategies and category plans.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Competitive Compensation & Benefits: Private healthcare, life insurance, lunch subsidy, company car, 6-month contract followed by permanent employment
- Career Progression: Regular salary reviews and promotion opportunities based on your performance.
- Continuous Development: On-the-job training, one-on-one mentoring, and immersive classroom programs.
- Hybrid Flexibility: Balance remote work with collaboration days at our Kyiv office.
Job Qualifications
Who You Are
- Proven Sales Leader: previous experience in Sales, Key Account Management, Category Management, or Trade Marketing.
- Confident Brand Builder: previous experience in consumer understanding and brand plan development,
- Analytical Problem solver: strong data-driven approach with the ability to turn insights into actionable plans.
- Global Mindset: experience collaborating in a multinational environment, handling cross-functional projects.
- Skilled Negotiator: expert in consultative selling, building partnerships, and closing deals.
- Strategic Planner: able to design and implement multi-layered plans while anticipating and mitigating risks.
- Resilient Closer: confident in handling objections and driving agreements to completion.
- Language Proficiency: fluent in English and Ukrainian (written and verbal).
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Job Schedule
Full timeJob Number
R000150848Job Segmentation
Experienced ProfessionalsStarting Pay / Salary Range
Skills Required
- Proven experience in Sales, Key Account Management, Category Management, or Trade Marketing
- Experience in consumer understanding and brand plan development
- Strong data-driven approach with analytical problem-solving skills
- Experience collaborating in a multinational environment
- Expertise in consultative selling and negotiation
- Ability to design and implement multi-layered plans
- Fluent in English and Ukrainian
Procter & Gamble Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Procter & Gamble and has not been reviewed or approved by Procter & Gamble.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision offerings alongside life and disability options. Mental-health and practical support are reinforced through an EAP that includes confidential counseling and other advisory services.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is strengthened through profit sharing and retirement-plan access, creating a longer-term wealth-building component beyond base pay. Stock-related programs (such as share purchase and matching structures) further contribute to perceived retirement and savings value.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous, including fully paid leave for new parents and additional recovery time for birth mothers. Family-oriented time-off options and caregiving supports add to the sense of comprehensive support across life stages.
Procter & Gamble Insights
What We Do
Procter & Gamble Company is an American multi-national consumer goods corporation. P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a soap and candle company. Today, we’re the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands, including Always®, Charmin®, Braun®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Oral B®, Pantene®, Pampers®, Tide®, and Vicks®. The design, development, growth and success of these products—and many more—is thanks to the innovative and insightful minds of our people. From Day 1, you’ll help make everyday life easier for our 5 billion consumers through billion dollar brands. With our large global footprint, there are many opportunities to work with P&G in multiple locations. We offer opportunities in approximately 70 countries and continually aim to attract, reward and advance the finest people in the world. As a "build from within" organization, we see 95% of our people start at an entry level and progress through the organization. Here, we want you to get your career off to a fast start. That's why we don't have any rotational development programs or gradual ramping-up periods: you’ll be able—and encouraged—to dive right in from day 1. Join us and help make life better through meaningful work that makes an impact from Day 1.
