Assistant Manager – Category Management Amazon & Away From Home (AFH)

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International? Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

The Assistant Manager, Category Management Amazon & AwayFromHome (AFH)is responsible forleveragingconsumer, customer, and market data to develop actionable insights and drive strategic marketing initiatives for the U.S. Foodservice business and key retail customers. This role converts in-depth insights intoactionablestrategies.

This role partners closely with cross-functional teams, including brand equity, sales, marketing, andtrade marketing, to create compelling, insight-driven customer presentations and strategies that drive trial and growth for key brands such as Oreo, ChipsAhoy!,Sour Patch Kids, andbelVita.

This role supports CategoryManagementfor Mondelez (Biscuit/Confectionary/Bars/Cough), leading top retailers such as Amazon and AwayFromHome channels.

The ideal candidate is highly analytical, collaborative, and experienced in insights & analytics, preferablyineCommerceand/or AwayFromHomeenvironments. This role will report to theDirector,Category Management Growth Channels.

How You Will Contribute

Insights & Data Analysis
  • Pull and analyze data from platforms such as Technomic, Data Essential,Circanaand Nielsento support Away from Home and Amazon team initiatives
  • Develop consumer selling stories using the consumer segmentation framework as its data foundation
  • Generate actionable, behavior-changing insights andidentifyeffective levers of engagement
  • Support the development of monthly insights reports and presentations
  • Conduct AFH competitive analysis and concept testing & report results and recommendations
  • Manage bespoke data requests for National and Regional Account Managers (NAM/RAM)
  • Monitor industry trends and competitive activity, sharing insights with account teams
  • Curate an advantaged level of social intelligence to uncover rich cultural trends, snacking moments, and brand opportunities
  • Continuouslyoptimizebusiness through data, tracking, and learning
  • Collaborate with category management to fullyleverageall data sources across Growth Channels and to create performance dashboards
Customer & Channel Strategy Development
  • Support the development of customer-facing presentations for commercial and non-commercial national, regional, and key accounts
  • Support the development of internal presentations for leadership & brand equity teams
  • Influence and educate customers and internal teams on how to drive category growth through Digital
  • Generate best-in-class recommendations to drive sustainable category growth
  • Drive action-oriented insights on innovation, communication, and brand growth imperatives to shopper, customer, and net revenue planning teams
  • Identifyandleveragegrowth opportunities in the retail environment for the area of geographic responsibility
  • Create best in class POGs across different AFH verticals
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication
  • Build strong relationships across marketing, sales, growth channels, category management, and agency partners
  • Proactively communicate project timelines, presentation schedules, and strategic updates to leadership
  • Experience in presenting to retailer teams, and in negotiation planning/joint business planning
What extra ingredients you will bring:
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Analytics, or related field
  • 5-10years of experience incategory management, insights, marketing strategy, or analytics (CPG/FMCG, Amazonor Away from Home preferred)
  • Experience with syndicated data sources (e.g., Technomic,Circana,Nielsen,Data Essential)
  • Experience in using retailer/customer data, shopper insights, and analytics to develop compelling retail customer plans
  • Strong analytical and storytelling skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
  • Highproficiencyin base business tools (Excel/PowerPoint)
  • In-depth knowledge in analyzing and creating visualizations oflarge amountsof data
  • Experience developing customer-facing presentationswith direct customer-facing experience is plus
  • eCommerce/Omnichannel/Amazonexperience is a plus
  • Away from Home experience is a plus

  • JDA/POGbuildingexperiencea plus

Key Competencies
  • Strategic thinking and business acumen
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Strong communicationand presentation skills
  • Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
  • Proventrack recordin persuasively influencing and aligning key customers and b
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