Trade Category Manager

Are you ready to drive sales and market share? Look no further. We are looking for a dynamic and strategic Trade Category Manager to join our team. If you have a passion for data analysis, strategic thinking, and growth maximization, this is the opportunity for you! Join us and help shape the future of our company with your innovative ideas and leadership.

Star, one of the best known company in the Italian food scene born with the legendary cube in 1948, is a leader in most of the categories in which it operates with various brands with a broad portfolio of products, ranging from noodles, sauces to teas and infusions.

We are part of the GBFoods group which combines several brands and companies and operates in more than 50 countries, with the purpose of "Celebrating local flavors". This means you will be part of an international organization working with colleagues with different nationalities and experience, and all the excitement coming from a local approach.

We have the ingredients for your new role

 As Trade Category Manager, reporting directly to the Trade Marketing Director, you will be responsible for driving the optimisation of some of our product categories to maximise profitability and growth.

A category specialist and an intern will report to the Trade Category Manager.

Your main tasks will be:

• Definition of the 360° Commercial Vision & Strategy of the category, focusing on areas and channels (shelf, assortment, distribution, promo, Perfect Store initiatives).
• Definition of commercial policy of the category in terms of assortment and promotional guidelines and tracking of their effectiveness
• Point of reference for the S&OP process with a Risk & Opportunities assessment approach to guide short, medium and long term growth objectives on its perimeter
• Structuring periodic reports for tracking sell in & sell out data by area, channel and customers
• Defining and managing category listing budgets
• Supporting the Sales team in building the plan per customer and developing Category Management projects
• Supporting the Perfect Store team in identifying point of sale execution opportunities by channel/customer
• Collaboration with other functions, in particular Marketing & Finance, for category development.

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