Category Manager - Contract

Description

Kenvue is currently recruiting for:

Category Manager - Contract

This position reports into Category Strategy Manager and is based at Ultimo.

This is a 12 month MAT Leave cover position.

Who we are

At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care.

Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we're the house of iconic brands - including NEUTROGENA®, AVEENO®, TYLENOL®, LISTERINE®, JOHNSON'S® and BAND-AID® that you already know and love.

Science is our passion; care is our talent.

Our global team is made by 22,000 diverse and brilliant people, passionate about insights, innovation and committed to deliver the best products to our customers.

With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means to have the power to impact life of millions of people every day.

We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage - and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future-and yours.

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What you will do

The Category Manager is responsible for bringing an outside in view by providing insights into the drivers of category and market performance to inform business decision making.

You will complete analysis of complex data patterns and trends, communicating key findings to internal and external stakeholders and support the sales team with customer presentation needs.

You will also partner with the brand teams to prepare go to market NPI plans including sales briefings, sell in decks and activation plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilising Category trends & category growth drivers to develop strategic category insights to inform category growth initiatives

• Partnering with CBI on Shopper Insights to understand shoppers behaviour, shopper missions and shopper decision making

• Lead Category Strategy Development including range, must stock list, planogram, pricing, promotional strategy and NPI NLF including cannibalisation and incrementally assumptions by account

• Be the key contributor to the category review process including cross functional team brief, analysis to set range review objectives, building category narrative and fact-based recommendation for three-way win

• Partner with Account teams in customer engagements by providing category growth and performance drivers and supporting NAMs in customer engagements

• Collaboratively partnering with Marketing on growth planning to input into holistic growth plans & partner with the Account Teams to translate growth plans into tailored account plans and 12-month rolling activation calendar

• Partner with Brand to prepare the GTM plans for NPI including preparing all sales briefs, NLF's, key sell in decks, activation plans and is responsible for tracking performance in market

• Identifying and feeding category shopper insights into integrated marketing briefs to deliver strong E2E campaigns

• Providing Category Analysis and insight into category & com...