Associate Manager - Category Management

Overview Accelerate PepsiCo business growth by supporting the South Africa Category with category analysis, reporting and category strategy recommendations to drive growth Responsible for delivering periodic and on-demand category performance reviews, and addressing ad-hoc customer requests, based on internal and external data sources Provide analytics to support key strategic customer engagements and to support category assortment and space interventions 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