Category Development Manager

2 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Asahi Beverages Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced category development manager to join the team. You will be responsible for developing category thinking through insight and provide recommendations across Asahi Lifestyle portfolio

**Your Impact**

We are currently looking for a Category Development Manager to join our team. As part of your new role you will be responsible for the development and embedding category thinking, insights and strategy across ALB and key customers. You will also identify growth opportunities and partner with relevant internal functions and external customers to support the delivery of new products into the market.

Your strong category expertise will enable you to identify opportunities that will unlock future growth and drive our business to the best-in-class level.

Our portfolio includes iconic brands such as Schweppes, Pepsi, SOLO, Gatorade, Cool Ridge and Lipton, amongst others.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead the internal Range Review process across key customers
- Ensure Perfect Store Standards are developed, maintained and embedded across the channel, by championing the voice of the shopper
- Partnering with both marketing and sales teams to use market and shopper data analysis to solve core performance issues and/or to identify strategic opportunities
- Partner with Channel Strategy in developing and delivering the category sell stories to our external customers that link our internal initiatives to external category growth opportunities (through support in Joint Business Plans, category reviews, NPD sell in plus range/space recommendations)

**About you**

You’re a highly-skilled individual and talented in a broad range of key category competencies. You would have done so across a large range of category, sales and marketing roles. Other key skills and experience we are looking for are:

- Degree qualified within either marketing/commerce/business
- Ability to negotiate and influence cross-functional internal and external stakeholders
- Resilient, with a strong commercial understanding
- Shopper data analytics experience (Quantium and Summit highly regarded)
- Experience in Market Analytics with proficiency in utilising Scan data
- Experience in shelf management programs (JDA Intactix or Blue Yonder highly regarded)
- Team player

**Why Asahi?**

Asahi Beverages is one of the leading beverage companies in Australia and New Zealand with a rich and varied history. Comprising some of Australia and New Zealand’s most loved brands, the company’s Regional Hub is based in Melbourne with four Business Divisions - Asahi Premium Beverages, Asahi Lifestyle Beverages (formerly Schweppes Australia) and Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) in Australia; and Asahi Beverages NZ and The Better Drinks Co. in New Zealand. There’s always a great deal going on and opportunities abound for those ready to take them



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