Quaker Customer Insights Manager, LCL

Job description

Overview

The Role

The LCL Customer Insights Manager is a main contact with LCL for the Quaker Foods portfolio of categories.  This person will report to the Senior Manager, and play a key role in leading the initiatives and the strategy for growing these categories volume and share at LCL banners with customer contact across all areas dealing with Director level and down. Being an important Category Advisor to LCL - this person must be attuned to the customer strategies and corporate direction, consumer and shopper insights, category trends, and competitive activity

 

The Company

PepsiCo Canada is recognized as one of Canada’s top 100 employers. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Our product portfolio includes 22 world-famous, billion-dollar brands; from Gatorade to Quaker, Tropicana to Lay’s and more. We make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throughout the world. PepsiCo's effort to help build a more sustainable food system represents a key element of the company's broader vision of accelerated, sustainable growth known as Winning with Purpose. As part of this vision, PepsiCo is striving to be a better company by further integrating purpose into the core of its business and brands and doing even more for people and the planet.  Our purpose efforts include fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, supporting the communities where we live and work, and improving choices in our portfolio through reformulations and new products.

 

At PepsiCo Canada, we are focused on delighting our consumers by delivering high-quality products and exciting brand campaigns.  Our people are critical to our success and by supporting their personal growth and development and providing them with the tools they need to succeed, PepsiCo Canada is a company you’ll be proud to join!

Responsibilities

What you’ll be working on:

·  Develop, present and implement category plan to grow share and volume in PepsiCo Foods categories at LCL. This will require a thorough understanding of the complete market mix of Promotion, Pricing, Placement (merchandising) and Product Assortment
·  Build and create tools, scorecards and presentations to provide recommendations on category strategy
·  Develop a model that will consistently challenge both PFC and LCL to continue the momentum in these categories and drive profitable growth for both parties
·  Leverage LCL LDIA, Nielsen Market Track, Ad Insights, and Assortment Optimizer as well as staying current with new research
·  Support Quaker customer teams with analytics to assist in meeting sales and share targets.
Qualifications

Who’s a good fit for the team: .

·  University degree (Finance, Economics or Business)
·  Retail experience in the grocery retail
·  3+ years relevant experience with CPG company
·  High proficiency in the use of Excel, Power Point
·  Understanding of grocery retail merchandising
·  NielsenIQ CIP platform and Dunnhumby experience
·  Skilled in communication & presentation, prioritization and ownership

 

What you can expect from us:

·  Competitive compensation, benefits, pension, RRSP contribution and vacation time
·  A flexible working environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance
·  A dynamic and inclusive culture that promotes you to bring your whole-self to work
·  A supportive team that will encourage your professional growth and development
·  An opportunity to be meaningful and impactful within your work and projects
·  An opportunity to give back to the community with our Always on Volunteer 360 Program
·  An organization that aims to use their scale, reach and expertise to build a more sustainable world