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Category Manager

Category Manager
Company:

Avon


Details of the offer

You've picked a great time to join Avon. We're looking forward to the next chapter in our company's amazing story, and are looking for passionate people to join the team. If you'd like to become an Avon associate, this is your time!

Role Type
Permanent

What you'll be doing:
This position is responsible for the development and implementation of Category plans in accordance with the Company's strategic and financial objectives. The position will work closely with the Senior Category Manager, Campaign planners, Demand Planners and relevant Creative Designer and Supply Chain
Success will be described as delivering the category’s strategic priorities, the company’s financial objectives as well as meeting deadlines that ensure Campaign Schedule is met.

Key responsibilities:
Develop Category Strategies while ensuring Category profitability
Responsible for reviewing data on current & prior year plan, from a category perspective, and input into annual and quarterly planning process. (marketing analysis, competitor, consumer, internal historic performance)
Develop key actions to propose input for category development

Implementation of category strategies
Ensure successful product launches through robust analysis of current & historical brand performance and competitor landscape.
Input into size of line decisions and portfolio optimization Responsible for providing relevant information on product launches / products to highlight for the quarter.
Ensuring strong & relevant plans are put in place to support major product launches, as well as executing the plans with precision in line with budget allocation
Plan regular product flows with strong consumer offers to maximize product sales & meet margin targets
Accountable for the category innovation, making sure innovation plan support category plans
Ensuring the category plans are executed in line with launch plan and according budget allocated
Tracking Campaign results and course correct when required
Ensure creative support overall category strategy, from brief to GM sign off, creative reviews and liaising with creative department
Responsible and Accountable for creating the category pagination every campaign with space allocated in line with strategies and brand productivity taken into consideration
Responsible for working with Campaign & Demand Planning teams to review Category performance against plan and propose solutions to deliver category strategy in line with business KPI’s, within Campaign Planning process.

Matrix Relationships and Interfaces
Responsible for ensuring alignment with matrix teams on key brand & category strategies. Required to ensure local market needs are understood by the regional support teams
Accountable for ensuring teams deliver on matrix team deadlines.

People management
Accountable for ensuring direct team consistently and effectively deliver quality work to ensure deadlines are met.
Accountable for the PMP and Development plan discussions with direct team, as well as lead any probationary discussions required
Ensure new associates are training with thorough on-boarding programme and are allocated a “buddy” in order to learn details of day to day responsibility.

We'd love you to have:
Matric, Relevant marketing degree
At least 5+ years marketing experience, category role preferred with FMCG or Cosmetic industry
Advanced MS Office (Pivot, VLOOKUP’s, Formula’s)
Excellent data analysis skills, and strategy development skills, commercial acumen
Detailed knowledge of market trends and competitor strategies to develop relevant Category strategies

What we offer:
Avon is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our priority is finding the best people for the job, regardless of sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, beliefs, religion, whether you're about to have a baby or are planning to have one. We're all about our people, and that's why we think we're one of the best companies to work for in the world!


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Category Manager
Company:

Avon


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