Confectionery Strategic Category Lead - York, United Kingdom - Nestle

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Business Area:
Nestlé UK&I - Confectionery

Confectionery Strategic Lead

Location:
York (Hybrid working)

Attractive Salary + car allowance + potential bonus + 12 flexible days in addition to holiday entitlement + other fantastic benefits


This is a permanent opportunity and here at Nestlé many of our colleagues work flexibly and in many different ways, different core hours and remote working.

Please talk to us during the recruitment process about what flexibility could look like for you.


Position Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a

Strategic Lead to join our


_Nestlé Confectionery_:

- _


_UK_:

- _team to manage and lead the Strategic Commercial Development Team (CDT) function to deliver shopper centric, market leading, long term strategic plans in line with the UK Confectionery Business goals.

As part of the

_ Nestlé Confectionery UK _team, you could be working with some of the world's best-known and most-loved brands, many of which have been enjoyed for generations. We strive to put the consumer at the heart of everything we do and deliver the best-tasting and most permissible treats for consumers day after day.


A day in the life of a Strategic Category Lead...
In this exciting and dynamic role leading the Commercial Development Team, your key responsibilities will include:

  • Create, ahead of the Integrated Commercial Planning (ICP) process longer term format, channel and customer strategic plans using relevant category insight.
  • Use these plans to give the right strategic inputs to the Innovation & Renovation and ICP process. Within the ICP process deliver market leading plans to ensure winning customer partnerships and firstclass execution of our Brands
  • Strategic Revenue Management: Understand & plan optimal investment choices by channel, customer and format. Focus on portfolio management and bring balance through fewer, bigger, better pieces of innovation in the right channel and format.
  • Category Leadership: To shape omnichannel format strategies and plans for our market and support the team to:
  • Integrate insight to our longer-term strategic plans and I&R projects by understanding and connecting the category growth drivers, activation platforms, consumer needs, trends, market and competitors
  • Understand the channel/customer landscape and build an omnichannel format plan to reflect growth
  • Create winning customer plans and partnerships to deliver business metrics
  • Commercial Planning: Lead our mediumterm commercial brick ups & promotional guideline processes through plans that deliver against business targets

What will make you successful?
To be considered for this opportunity, we're looking for experienced Category/Strategy Development individuals from within the FMCG sector.

Other key experiences we're looking for include:

  • An appreciation and understanding of Shopper need states


  • Knowledge of Customers

  • Traditional Retailer, Digital & Out of Home operations
  • Commercial experience (including revenue, profit, promo activity, pricing etc)
  • Strategic Revenue Management experience
  • Understanding and incorporating Category Strategies, Trends, Channel and Customers & Shopper behaviour
  • Evidence of strategic ability
  • Strong evidence of working collaboratively with colleagues to deliver exceptional results
  • Experience of leading teams and developing people

Why Nestlé?

In the Nestlé Sales Team, we are creating an environment where we all feel we belong, we are the best we can be, and we win together.

We want people to feel they can be themselves, dare greatly and believe their best is yet to come.


We will actively encourage you to gain different experience in a wide range of roles including our Category Development teams.

We want our people to have the breadth and depth of experience and as a result an unrivalled Sales career which could lead to senior roles both in the UK and across other markets.


Supported by our industry leading eBusiness and Sales Academies which develops you in all aspects of eCommerce, customer and category management, you truly can achieve your full potential whatever that might mean for you.


We will provide support and coaching to help you develop yourself in your career and as an individual, as well as offering great benefits that you'd expect from a business the size of Nestlé - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus up to an additional 12 days flex leave, bank holiday exchange, competitive pension scheme and much more.


What you need to know
Job advert posting date 23/02/2023

Job advert closing date 09/03/2023

Right to work in the UK
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