Category Strategy & Trade Marketing Lead

Category Strategy & Trade Marketing Lead

Job Description

Location: Bryanston (hybrid)

Closing date: end of day Tuesday 2nd December

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

You will be accountable for the Baby & Child Care & Fem Care category strategy and trade executional plan to ensure the achievement of the SSA business KPI's.

The role will manage and be responsible for

category insights and analytics, shopper and trade marketing teams.

In this role, you will be responsible for:


* Owning and developing the total Category Value Drive Strategy / landscape across Personal Care for KC


* Ensure Value Driver Platforms are integrated into the Annual Business plan and SBP planning cycles


* Drive Category captaincy & thought leadership within key Customers


* Owner of the executive insight into the Quarterly Forecasting process:


* Inform the in-year and long-term growth trajectory of the categories with the right monthly tracking and


* cadence of insights and market understanding


* Owner and accountable for the total commercial team’s enablement of insights in the required format/structure to drive fast effective insights for each function while also continuously focusing on the commercial team’s capability development


* Accountable for the total SA Shopper & Trade Marketing Strategy development in conjunction with the Marketing Managers in the short, medium and long term


* Senior engagement with retailers relevant marketing, shopper and buying teams (customer facing) to develop partnerships that deliver against retailer and KC KPI’s while ensuring the shopper areas are being solved for (Shopper / Omnichannel JBP development)


* Accountable for the creation and deployment of pricing parameters and deal structures for PC categories

About Us

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We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

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We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity.

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