Associate Manager - Category Management
4/20/2026
The Associate Manager will support the South Africa category by providing performance reviews, category strategy recommendations, and data-driven insights. They are responsible for monitoring market and competitor performance while collaborating with internal teams to drive in-store execution strategies.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
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Responsibilities
- Monitor market category, customer and competitor performance across key EMEA markets and execute scorecard reporting for top customers at required intervals and generate scorecards and performance overviews (quarterly/adhoc for key customers) for the categories and customers
- Leverage multiple data sources (Nielsen/IRI, Household panel data, Customer scan/loyalty data) and market/customer understanding, to support EMEA DX
- Supports in the creation and driving of winning execution strategies in-store with customers.
- Identifies sales opportunities and optimization tactics to drive category demand, space and shopper KPIs
- Analyze and prepare reports on Promotions and NPD performance and benchmarking in external views (Nielsen, dunnhumby etc.) to measure and optimize, to drive category growth
- Able to collaborate and work with BU teams and external third party agencies to acquire information and resolve any service issues on projects
Qualifications
- Bachelors' degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering: MBA a plus
- 5yrs+ insights/ analytics
- Prior FMCG experience
- Knowledge of Nielsen, Household Panel
- Advanced Microsoft Office / PowerPoint & Excel skills
- Can synthesize multiple disparate data sources into compelling growth strategies/reviews
- Can easily see how insights and research learnings can improve business and frames up reporting efforts and opportunities to inform business decisions
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