Category Growth Lead

Posted 5 Days Ago
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Brøndby, Hovedstaden
Hybrid
Mid level
Big Data • Food • Hardware • Machine Learning • Retail • Automation • Manufacturing
We're a global snacking company empowering people to snack right.
The Role
As a Category Growth Lead, you will manage a team to develop and execute customer plans, identify growth opportunities, and support volume and revenue forecasting. You will collaborate with teams to prepare customer solutions and analyze performance data to recommend improvements.
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Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
As a Category Growth Lead, you manage a team of three who ensure that customer plans are developed and executed - via our strategies and tactics for growth - to deliver our annual target.
Your key skills are people management and an understanding of the business metrics and financial drivers needed to unlock profitable growth for Mondelēz International and our customers. An analytical mind and a growth mindset are crucial for success in this role.
You will:

  • Support with the development of annual and ad hoc customer plans and subsequent monitoring of them
  • Look for growth opportunities relating to e.g. (but not limited to!) optimised listings, distribution and white space channels, customers or categories
  • Be an integral part of our volume and revenue forecasting process, providing drivers to senior management on performance vs our budget. This includes attending customer forecast meetings to understand customer dynamics and identify opportunities and risks vs the plan
  • Provide customer, channel and trade recommendations in the launch of new products
  • Prepare customer solutions (e.g. tailor-made activations, events) in a co-operation with the Trade Activation team and Marketing
  • Support Revenue Growth Manager with promotional post evaluations in partnership with Finance and Marketing
  • Support Key Account Managers by providing regular reporting including performance tracking - and recommending and discussing with them opportunities for improvement
  • Monitor revenue realization of any cost price increases


What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

  • Strong analytical skills - could be from Finance or other analytical field
  • Commercial understanding from at least a few years of experience, for instance within FMCG or similar
  • A growth mindset! An ability to see opportunities instead of limitations and think outside the box - a can-do attitude
  • Ability to reduce complexity using an analytical, disciplined and collaborative approach - key in a large, international organisation
  • Ability to synthesize multiple data points into a holistic position - important in e.g. forecasting
  • Knowledge about the local market and language is an advantage
  • International experience - could be from working or living abroad
  • A positive view of life and extroversion will be beneficial in managing internal and external stakeholders, incl. customers


More about this role
Work schedule: 100%
Relocation Support Available?
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
Our people make all the difference in our succes
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Excited to grow your career?
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
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Job Type
Regular
Category Planning & Activation
Sales

The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
90,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is an American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company based in Illinois which employs approximately 90,000 individuals around the world.

Our Purpose
Our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.

Our Brands
We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum.

Our People
Our 90,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Our Values and Leadership Commitments of Love our Consumers and Brands, Grow Every Day, and Do What's Right shapes our culture – what we believe in, stand for, and what guides our actions and decisions. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are.

Our Strategies
We are uniquely positioned to lead the future of snacking with strong leadership in our categories, an unparalleled portfolio of global and local brands, and a solid footprint in fast-growing markets. Aimed at delivering sustainable growth, our strategic plan is centered around three strategic priorities:

• Growth: accelerate consumer-centric growth
• Execution: drive operational excellence
• Culture: build a winning growth culture

Why Work With Us

We offer passionate, energetic and curious people a huge choice of careers in our fun, fast-paced, global business. We operate in four regions: Asia, Middle East & Africa; Europe; Latin America; and North America. And in over 80 countries our people are united in a common purpose to empower people to snack right.

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