Category Manager Anz (Hybrid)

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The Role:
To guide the Category Development team of BIC Oceania in understanding category, consumer, shopper, customer and business insights to develop an integrated category strategy plan that will cascade down to brand plans and account plans, developing effective category growth plans that help deliver the business results.
Responsibilities:
Category Strategic Planning

• Lead the design and implementation of category plans that are built from shopper, consumer and customer insights.

Optimize Commercial Plans

• Ensure that the brand and account plans are aligned with the initial category plans to deliver upon our strategic pillars for growth.

Consumer and Shopper Insights

• Lead the Investment and delivery of local market research to close knowledge consumer and shopper insight gaps.
• Lead the communication of global and local market, consumer and shopper insights
• Leverage these insights internally and externally.
• Ability to identify appropriate case studies / research studies from other countries across the world to share with and potentially implement in Australia & New Zealand.

External Category Engagement

• Lead a cross functional team to develop and deliver the category reviews for key customers across Australia & New Zealand.
• Track, analyse & communicate post review performance.
• Ensure reviews are linked to commercial plans.

Talent Development

• Support, coach and develop a Category Development Analyst in order to create a successful succession plan.

Internal & External Engagement

• Regular interaction & relationship development with BIC's customers to understand their strategies and share insights to assist them with driving category growth - in particular for the Range Review process.
• Attendance at industry forums to help increase or capability across the category management function and to share best practice with industry peers.
• Regular interaction and networking with other Category Management colleagues across the world; in particular the Global Centre of Expertise to share best practice & seek support.

Category & Portfolio Performance Tracking

• Proactive development of tools to enable the ease-of-access to category and market insights and data points (e.g. dashboards, trackers, topsheets, monthly summaries etc).
• Accountable for managing on a monthly basis the accurate tracking of category, segments and brand performance.
• Communicate on exception reports any underperforming lines or gaps that need to be addressed.
• Working closely with the RGM team to track effectiveness of promotions on a monthly basis & support to identify opportunities to optimise our promotional plans.
• Lead the ongoing tracking of competitive price movements & communication to the commercial team.
• Provision of ad hoc reports / analysis of data as required by key stakeholders.

Manage Data Requirements

• Management of agency relationships - key point of contact for day to day business, organisation of regular reporting and presentation sessions and negotiation of contract / fees as and when required.
• Training and induction of newcomers in Category Management / specific softwares (e.g. Circana or Nielsen) when required
• Provide effective leadership in ensuring accurate and timely management (reporting and updating)
• Manage the ad-hoc buying process of specific data gaps the business might have.

Market Research Budget Management

• Accountable for managing & tracking the market data & research budget on a monthly basis, including monthly syndicated data as well as consumer, shopper and customer ad-hoc studies.
• Ensure planned spend does not exceed budget at year end and all administration is finished.

Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualifications ideally in business.
• Minimum 2 years relevant experience (e.g. Category Management at a manufacturer / Analyst at a Data Supplier such as Nielsen / IRI / Kantar preferred)
• Ability to use MS Office applications to intermediate/high level essential (in particular Excel & Powerpoint)
• Understanding of the AUS/NZ retail environment preferred
• Generation of Insight - ability to understand and identify the insights (the 'so what' ) within the extensive data sets
• Analytical Agility - ability to extract, distill and understand market trends from multiple data sources and identify opportunities for growth
• Strong Communication & Presentation Skills - ability to build and deliver compelling presentations that motivate and influence others
• Financial awareness - ability to understand impact of recommendations on commercials of both BIC and the customer
• Attention to detail - ability to work methodically, to organise and structure outputs and to review own work and identify areas for improvement
• Influencing others - ability to persuade and influence other team members, customers and colleagues
• Business acumen and problem solving - has an understanding of the BIC products & services, considers the impacts of actions and uses advanced problem solving capabilities to drive the business forward
• Results oriented - a hunger to drive the business forward and adapt style to different customer requirements, continually seeking ways to improve operations and service outcomes
• Interpersonal skills - ability to create and nurture positive working relationships with both internal colleagues and our external customers by living the BIC values
• Teamwork - Team oriented with a positive energy and can-do attitude
• Responsibility - Ability to work autonomously, with drive and self-motivation, to proactively seek out insights and work with the appropriate colleagues to leverage

Desirable

• Cross functional experience (indirect) mainly marketing & finance.
• MBA or Postgraduate Qualifications in business.

What do we offer?

• Working for an international FMCG leader with iconic brands
• A great team of highly motivated and enthusiastic people
• Opportunities for growth within a global organization
• Attractive flexible working policy
• Healthcare cover

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