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Category Development Manager

Henkel
Mississauga, Canada
$80K-$90K a year (estimated)
Full-time

Canada, Mississauga, Henkel Consumer Brands

Category Development Manager

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day.

If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 50,000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Consumer Brands continuously drive the evolution in dynamic categories : Laundry & Home Care and Hair.

With our trusted brands, including Persil and Schwarzkopf, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills.

Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

Dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE

The Category Development Manager will play a key role providing Assortment, Merchandising, Pricing and Shelving recommendations to the Canadian Sales Team while forging strong cross-functional partnerships incl.

Sales, Commercial Strategy and Marketing teams to identify opportunities and develop customer-centric selling stories.

  • A self-starter with an innovative, analytical, solution -oriented, strategic mindset to evaluate and identify Category and Customer growth opportunities while offering a clear point of view leveraging syndicated marketplace reporting.
  • An expert storyteller interpreting POS, loyalty, and shopper data to develop best-in-class Category Reviews.
  • Provides adhoc Sales support of presentation development identifying strategic account opportunities including space to sales analytics and ability to influence through fact-based storytelling.
  • Ad-hoc reporting with headquarter and Division / Team focus.
  • Educates and disseminates HQ strategic information (brand & insights), studies and analyses, to Team and Account with market focus.
  • Builds relationships with North American and Global Shopper Category Development Team to leverage and share best demonstrated practices.

YOUR SKILLS

  • B.S. or B.A. degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 5+ years of experience in Category Management (or related roles) within consumer products industry with manufacturer or syndicated data supplier.

Previous customer facing experience is an asset.

  • Direct sales experience in consumer packaged goods industry is a plus.
  • Strong proficiency and expert knowledge working across multiple systems including customer tools. i.e. Nielsen, Numerator, LDIA, Springboard, Circana.
  • Superb communication skills (oral and written) with experience presenting data and findings to senior level audiences incl.

at customer engagements.

  • Demonstrated analytical skills, ability to distill vast amounts of data into critical business insights to activate.
  • Strong competency in time management to assist in successfully managing multiple projects.
  • Expected travel - 10-15%

Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral.

At Henkel's request only, preferred vendors may be invited to refer talent for specific open positions. In these cases, a fully-executed agreement with Henkel must be in place and current.

All employees applying for an internal position must have a discussion with his / her manager about their interest in a job posting opportunity.

The discussion will not preclude the employee from interviewing if their skills meet the job requirements.

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us.

Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different races, colors, religions, sexes, national origins, disabilities, veteran statuses, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and other legally protected characteristics.

JOB ID : 24064076

Contract & Job type : Full Time, Regular

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