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.

The Category Manager role supports AMEA's Category growth agenda, ensuring Category First thinking is applied within the business and at the forefront of customer partnerships.
Category Growth is a key pillar within the Growth Wheel framework, linking insights to Mondelez's commercial strategies
This position (reporting to the Head of Category Strategy and Customer Engagement AMEA) is critical to building organizational capability in developing and executing Category Growth Strategies and partnering with retail customers across the Asia, Middle East & Africa (AMEA) region, spanning some 20+ markets.

How you will contribute

You will:

Support Head of Category Strategy and Customer Engagement in facilitating Category Growth Strategy workshops, guiding markets to unearth drivers and gain alignment
Ensure market strategies are grounded in insight, leveraging consumer, category and shopper data available. Partner with the insights team to maximize our understanding of the category fundamentals
Help markets translate Category Growth Strategies into 6P activations - Proposition, Product, Promotion, Placement, Promotion, Pricing, leading to impactful executions in the market
Support growth opportunities sizing, coaching markets on how to utilize data and assumptions to compute an opportunity
Elevate Category management capability, training markets to optimize category performance using best-in-class principles
Upskill markets in customer partnership management leveraging the Mondelēz Joint Value Creation Framework
Elevate AMEA's Advantage Group Survey process - ensuring markets are developing robust Action plans to action feedback. Collate and summarize report findings.
Facilitate knowledge sharing amongst the markets.

What you will bring

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

Strong track record of success in FMCG - cross functional exposure across sales, category /CP&A, RGM and marketing highly beneficial
Comprehensive understanding of Category Management principles
Adept at facilitating cross-functional workshops and presenting to large teams
Experience building Category Growth Strategies - from insight through to execution
Experience working with consumer, category and shopper data from agencies like Nielsen, Kantar, Spaceman/Blue Yonder/JDA
Demonstrated abilities in analytics and problem solving with strong commercial acumen
Excellent communication skills (verbal & written) and advanced influencing skills
Advanced project management skills
Regional experience is highly regarded

Experience & Qualification Required:

At least 8 years of work experience within FMCG businesses, across commercial sales, marketing, insights, strategy or category roles.
Full time MBA/PGDM from a premier institute is mandatory
Experience building long term Category strategies, influencing internal decision making as well as customers
Experience with Spaceplanning software, Nielsen, Euromonitor is preferred

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Leadership Competencies -

Driveforresults
Commercial acumen
Timemanagement
Integrity&trust
Interpersonalsavvy
Peerrelationships
Problemsolving mindset
Actionorientated

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

Headquartered in Singapore, Mondelēz International's Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region is comprised of six business units, has more than 21,000 employees and operates in more than 27 countries including Australia, China, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. Seventy-six nationalities work across a network of more than 35 manufacturing plants, three global research and development technical centers and in offices stretching from Auckland, New Zealand to Casablanca, Morocco. Mondelēz International in the AMEA region is the proud maker of global and local iconic brands such as and biscuits, mooncakes, and chocolate, candy, gum, powdered beverage and cheese. We are also proud to be named a Top Employer in many of our markets.

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.

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