Category Planning & Activation Lead
Mondelez International
**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.**
You provide compelling insights and engage with customers and key account teams. You identify and track category opportunities that support growth or defend risk and apply your insights for category, shopper, and consumer metrics when analyzing and translating data sources.
**How you will contribute**
You will:
+ Responsible for the development and execution of selling programs related to their assigned Category's innovation, distribution, merchandising, and promotional plans
+ Key linkage between the Customer Business Teams (CBTs) and the Category Innovation, Marketing and Equity teams to ensure that our strategies and tactics are aligned to the needs of our Customers
+ Responsible for building category and customer plans for the assigned Category, working collaboratively with Category teams, Insights, and Customer Business Teams (CBTs)
+ Be seen as the Category expert internally and create compelling, actionable & measurable category plans
+ Provide thought leadership internally & externally around brand & category initiatives (promotional strategy / budget planning)
+ Leading delivery of category dashboard / fundamentals and recommending corrective actions to ensure targets are met
+ Ongoing assessment of critical baseline volume opportunities / risks and lead initiatives to optimize category performance
**What you will bring**
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
+ Category development, key accounts and market insight analysis and delivering growth through category leadership
+ Having a future-focused mindset, demonstrating curiosity about industry trends, digital solutions and innovation for consumers and translating opportunities into business plans
+ Delivering strategic plans, measuring and monitoring results, and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
+ Influence stakeholders and interacting effectively with others, with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
+ Analytical skills and business acumen
+ Proven experience in the fast-moving consumer goods field is a distinct advantage
**Number of Openings Available**
1
No Relocation support available
**Business Unit Summary**
**Headquartered in Singapore, Mondelēz International’s Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region is comprised of six business units, has more than 21,000 employees and operates in more than 27 countries including Australia, China, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. Seventy-six nationalities work across a network of more than 35 manufacturing plants, three global research and development technical centers and in offices stretching from Auckland, New Zealand to Casablanca, Morocco. Mondelēz International in the AMEA region is the proud maker of global and local iconic brands such as** **_Oreo_** **and** **_belVita_** **biscuits,** **_Kinh Do_** **mooncakes,** **_Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk_** **and** **_Milka_** **chocolate,** **_Halls_** **candy,** **_Stride_** **gum,** **_Tang_** **powdered beverage and** **_Philadelphia_** **cheese. We are also proud to be named a Top Employer in many of our markets.**
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.
**Job Type**
Regular
Category Planning & Activation
Sales
At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.
We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum
Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.
Join us and Make It An Opportunity!
Mondelez Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
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