Category Controller - Chiswick Park Station, United Kingdom - pladis

pladis

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Chiswick Park Station, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don't compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire.

We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability.

If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Why join our team?

- pladis is home to iconic brands Godiva, McVitie's and Ulker. These brands make sweet treats and savoury treats that consumers everywhere recognise and enjoy As we start on our new journey, we will continue making the biscuits and confectionery people know and expect from these brands, and we will expand their portfolios too. Together we will build new and exciting products at pladis - new flavours, new concepts and new ways to share happiness

Our strength is not only in our products, it is also in our people and our values. Each business that has united to form pladis are loved for their heritage and values. We will retain the honesty, integrity and trust instilled in our brands by our groundbreaking founders as we embark on the next chapter of our success.
The Category Team is a focused and dedicated team with a clear ambition to be seen as the #1 category authority by our customers. The role of the pladis Category Management team is to help our retail customers and so pladis to grow sales of snacking products through the provision of industryleading shopper, retailer and market insights that enable robust decision making on product ranges, merchandising, business planning and promotions. We work directly with customers externally, as well as providing guidance internally to ensure alignment of our business goals with the category needs of our customers. Our success has been recognised with a Top 3 ranking in the Impulse Advantage Survey
What will this role achieve?
An ideal first step role for someone who has demonstrated leadership & achievement in a senior CDM role and shown the potential to make the step up to Category Controller.
The category controller accountable for the Online & Discounter areas of our Biscuits & Crisps & Snacks businesses, as well as our Cake business. The person leads & inspires the team towards development of strong trade relationships at all levels, providing category leadership and developing and implementing plans that deliver category growth. Successful execution of the category vision will result in being seen as the category advisor of choice.
As a leader, you will also need to influence internal partners with the needs of the category, customer and shopper to ensure that our business strategies & decisions are aligned with category needs
What will be your key deliverables?
CATEGORY VISION &

PLAN:

Develop & help implement a 3-Year vision for category growth with the focus customer(s) that identifies new ways to unlock consumption and purchase for the biscuits (& Crisps & Snacks) categories.

Implement the category plan with the appropriate Customers/Sectors; bringing it to life in a simple and compelling way that inspires the focus customer(s) to see the growth potential of the categories, makes it clear what they need to do to unlock the value and reinforces pladis as the #1 category advisor to help achieve growthFIXTURE OF THE FUTURE: In the wake of HFSS regulations & taking into account future trends & opportunities, create & deliver our vision of the Biscuits (virtual) fixture of the future by key customer mission to increase shopper engagement with the category, improve ease of shop and drive greater impulse purchase opportunities.

Ongoing drive the "here & now" translation of our fixture merchandising & in-store support online & in Discounters to drive profitable category growth for our partners & with that pladis.CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS: Broaden our contact and build close working relationships with key external customers through developing a detailed understanding of key contacts, their strategy, goals and calendar and using this understanding to proactively find opportunities of benefit to the Category & how pladis fits within those strategies.

Ensure the team has an ongoing and effective Customer Contact strategy, the executional effectiveness of which will be monitored via the annual Advantage Group SurveyCATEGORY FUNDAMENTALS: Ensure team develop and implement differentiated strategies and tactics f