Category Controller

Job description

Auto req ID: 222241BR

Job Description

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $64 billion in net revenue in 2018, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

As a Category Controller at PepsiCo, you’ll shape the Customer Strategy and Execution to consistently deliver the Right In-Store Solutions based on the Principles of Perfect Store; positioning PepsiCo UK as the number one indispensable partner for our customers.

In more detail you will:
·  Lead the development and delivery of an annual category insights plan for our Key Customers; aligning stakeholders to key insights needs / priorities both externally & internally which supports delivery
·  Strengthen indispensable partnership with senior customer contacts by identifying key store, category & shopper risks & opportunities and then leading mutually beneficial strategic projects as a result of insights analysis and key findings
·  Lead and support team to become integral category partners to both customer and PepsiCo commercial teams by providing relevant, timely and integrated solutions that shape and impact category & PUK growth, with a specific focus on category planning and range and space effectiveness
·  Work with DX Shopper Insights to leverage, tailor and deliver outputs from Shopper Team research to Key Customers
·  Ensure critical systems, reports and meeting cadences are documented, automated and imbedded within cat man working practices to ensure efficiency of work, clear and timely communication to internal and external stakeholders and centralised storage of key data and insights

Qualifications/Requirements

·  Significant category management experience, broad commercial experience and knowledge of the UK FMCG market (Grocery experience preferable but not essential)
·  Strong analytical skills - ability to synthesise and integrate learning from multiple sources and see the connections in data, trends and events to generate insights
·  Strategic mindset - thoroughly understands the competitor strategies / investment and their future development and builds plans to ensure PepsiCo competitive advantage
·  Excellent stakeholder skills - actively seeks and understands the input of others to gain broad alignment to ideas, influencing and shaping where appropriate
·  Line management - ability to manage, coach and develop people; giving actionable and clear direction to grow talent
Relocation Eligible: Not Applicable
Job Type: Pipeline

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.