Channel & Category (CCSD) Controller

Job description

Nestlé UK & I – NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto
Channel & Category (CCSD) Controller
Gatwick
Competitive salary plus Benefits

An exciting, new vacancy has arisen in our Gatwick office for a Channel & Category Sales Development Controller within our NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto business.

Our Story
Nestlé SA is the world's leading health, wellness and nutrition company, with over seven thousand employees in the UK and Ireland alone across the 19 sites of all our business. We are proud to produce some of Britain's best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, Go Cat and Shreddies. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year.

Nestlé's Beverage Division is part of the wider, global Nestlé business and is home to a number of the UK's number 1 brands including Nescafé and Nesquik. Nescafé is the biggest coffee brand in the world equating to over £6bn global turnover a year. Within the portfolio a range of sub-brands exist including the nation's favourite Nescafé Original. This accounts for 25% of all instant coffee cups consumed in the UK! The range also includes the iconic Nescafé Gold Blend, innovative Nescafé Azera and stylish Nescafé Dolce Gusto. Providing great quality coffee which tastes perfect and is ethically sourced is at the top of our agenda.
The beverage division is always changing in line with current trends and is a fundamental part of Nestlé within the FMCG market. We believe ‘it all starts with a Nescafé', so your career could start with one too!

Our Opportunity
NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto is one of the leading brands within pod coffee and is a strategic priority for Nestlé globally.
Within the UK NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto has retail sales of over £50m as well as 8 years of continual growth. Reporting into the NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto Business Unit Head you will have responsibility for leading the development, execution and review of the strategic channel and customer plans for the business, – delivering sustained, profitable sales and market share growth. This role covers not only the pods, but in conjunction with external partners through the development of long term strategic plans, you will also be required to maximise NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto coffee machine availability and visibility within all areas of the market place.

You
We are looking for a commercially driven candidate who is ideally We are looking for a degree educated individual (or equivalent), who also has energy and enthusiasm for the role, who is full of excitement to continue the successful journey of NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto. Entrepreneurial; you will have a proven track record of developing & executing winning commercial & customer plans in an FMCG environment, delivery of annual plans cross functionally and across businesses and customers, as well as demonstrating leadership of teams, either functional or across departments and be able to demonstrate their sustained success.
You will have a good working knowledge of category & channel management principles, be able to translate data and insight into winning customer plans, be financially literate and possess a sound understanding of competition law.

What you need to know
What can we offer in return? The chance to join the world's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company within an extremely well-recognised, market-leading division. Along with that come the benefits you'd expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package including a car allowance, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex, private healthcare, Pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this vacancy is 10th November. We will be considering applicants as they apply so please don't delay in submitting your application.

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