The Junior Category Manager supports category management initiatives across channels by analyzing shopper and market insights to identify growth opportunities. The role actively contributes to the development and execution of category strategies by helping set guidelines and influencing cross‑functional teams to drive sustainable category growth

• Analyzes industry and consumer trends, own and competitors performance to identify growth potential and provide recommendations to customers how to best grow the category sales
• Support delivery of MU Net Revenue, NOPBT %
• Collaborates with Marketing, Trade Marketing, Insights and Sales to ensure that Category Growth plans reflect commercial and brand strategies
• Contributes to T2T with key customers distributors and wholesalers and plays an active role in presenting and deploying plans with customer
• Supports the shopper insights agenda to ensure company has state of the art knowledge & insights to derive the right strategies for self and customers

• Bachelor/MSC in Management, Business Administration
• 3-5 years of experience in Commercial roles
• Strong commercial business acumen and P&L literacy
• Strong understanding of consumer and brands to enable holistic perspective
• Clearly communicates ideas, plans and priorities to others
• Result driven, able to prioritize
• High sense of Accountability
• Able to collaborate cross functionally
• Excellent English and Ms Office skills