Category Growth Manager
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Great things are happening in the Europe and Australia (EUAU) region. Each day, our 2,500 plus colleagues bring their passion to our offices, manufacturing sites, R&D center, and commercial/distributor markets across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We are energized by over 150 years of bringing people together with the food they love. With beloved brands Old El Paso, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Fibre One, Latina Fresh and more, we are on a mission to become the undisputed growth leader in food for EUAU. In a world that's ever-changing, we look to stay ahead and seek people who share our love of food and are hungry to shape the future.
The UK Team is seeking a Category Growth Manager to join us as the beating heart of the team, lead a dynamic agenda and help us achieve our high growth ambitions for our market leading brands!
This is an opportunity to shape and develop Category Management within Snacks taking strategic leadership of one of our Global Platforms in the UK to deliver insight-led category growth plans for our customers.
What your role is:
You will lead the UK development of our CCBP by tailoring our Global selling stories into exciting and insightful customer presentations, building and integrating relevant shopper insights into our communications, and elevating our customer engagement with priority customers through category-led growth initiatives at key moments.
You will partner with the sales team to deliver coordinated category growth-led communication with key customers, supporting range reviews to unlock category and brand growth opportunities.
Bring thought leadership on your category to customers and internal stakeholders through PoP Vision, Category Vision Insights, Category inductions, and Relevant growth trends while tracking Category and Customer performance.
Furthemore, this role has line management responsibility, where you will develop and grow the Customer Category Manager to maximise their potential.
Who we are looking for:
An experienced Category Manager with a performance Record of at least 3 years and excellent at building and nurturing relationships with customers. Confident communicator with strong presentation skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of leadership.
You demonstrate curiosity to consistently learn, develop, and grow in your role and within the organisation. Plus the ability to lead change, and achieve financial objectives through strategic thinking and impactful storytelling.
You like supporting and developing others to keep them motivated to achieve their goals.
What's in it for you?
Work with Heart - offers us flexibility that also requires partnership to ensure we regularly come together in person for those moments that help drive our business forward. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 2 days per week in the office with the opportunity to finish at 15:00 on Fridays.
Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive, for this we offer free Headspace account for you and up to 5 friends or family members, ongoing activities, Employee Assistance Program and more.
Bonus - Our people are at the heart of what makes General Mills great, so when goals are reached, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
Health & Dental Insurances - All colleagues get the opportunity to join our insurances from day one.
Family & Carers Leave - Every family is unique. Our approach allows every family to have the opportunity to spend quality time-off to support them from the point of birth or adoption to care, with enhanced covers.
Enjoy other perks like enhanced pension contributions, subsidised canteen, access to both peer-to-peer recognition and discount platforms, 2 extra days for volunteering work, and more...
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