Category Development Specialist

Il y a 6 mois


Brussels, Belgique JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS Temps plein

You are a brand lover. You want to be in the driving seat and to impact. You want to work with a multi-cultural team where diversity is valued for what it brings - divergence of opinions that makes our life and business richer. You want to create amazing coffee moments for consumers through brands like Douwe Egberts, Jacqmotte, L’Or or Senseo. Then this job is for you.

We’re looking for a **Category Development Specialist**. You will be part of our sales team based in Brussels and will report to the Shopper & Customer Marketing Manager.

**Your main responsibilities**:

- You develop the yearly promotional plan on brand & segment level. Align with all parties involved (Sales, Marketing, Finance, Field, Supply Chain and finally present the proposed yearly promo plan for approval to the Management Team.
- You lead the full promo process: from strategy recommendations, planning construction, execution, POS material creation (together with the Shopper Activation Specialist), post-evaluation and promo budget management (together with Finance).
- You drive efficiencies in dashboarding or post-evaluation tools as well as advising sales team
- You act as a highly collaborative liaison between Brand Marketing, Sales and customers to facilitate integration of all marketing and trade initiatives to ensure a cohesive marketing plan.
- You are putting in place, executing and improving processes to link all Marketing activities with the activities of the Sales team. Consult both internally and externally to gain information and insights, as well as achieve results that are aligned with corporate and functional objectives.
- You understand and combine brand and customer priorities and use the planning process to drive strategic alignment
- You support in the recommendation of SKU assortment priorities, financial guidelines and synergies across customers and category within area of responsibility.
- You support the selling process in conjunction with Marketing and Sales, including all sales communications and materials, coordinating timelines for deliverables across multiple functions to ensure Sales team is fully equipped for successful sell-in.
- You plan in coordination with Marketing and Sales the support for all new launches and coordinate sales presenters & road shows for sales teams.
- You assess launch success & prepare closing report for major launches.
- You collaborate extensively with shopper marketing team to share ideas, insights and best practices.

**Qualifications**
Working in the world’s largest pure-play coffee and tea company means big ambitions, and big ambition means big responsibility. Working at JDE Peet’s is hands-on, giving you an opportunity to leave your mark.

For this role we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

- You have a Bachelor or Master’s degree (or equivalent experience)
- You have experience in FMCG
- You possess strong analytical skills and high accuracy, you are strong in Excel & dashboard creation
- You have some notion of financial acumen and it’s a plus if you have knowledge of NielsenIQ and GfK data and PowerBI
- You are results oriented, entrepreneurial and self-motivating profile. You have attention to detail and you are tenacious and resilient
- You have experience in project management against set deliverables
- You have the ability to prioritize and organize workloads independently when required
- You are a flexible thinker and you are able to operate in a changing environment and cope with complexity
- You have the ability to problem solve and ‘make things happen’
- You have excellent communication skills and are a natural talent in building of (long term) work relationships
- You are fluent in Dutch / French / English

**Additional Information** What’s it like to work at JDE Peet’s?**

We are people united by the power and possibility of tea and coffee. At JDE Peet’s, we thrive on the freedom to pursue opportunities, provoking new ideas to make an impact at scale. Our ambition is simple at JDE Peet's: “Unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea”.

At JDE Peet's, we believe it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We also believe that a diverse and inclusive culture enables us to serve every coffee and tea lover in the best possible way. No matter who you are, where you come from, how you live your life, you can fulfil your ambitions and contribute to our success. **When you grow, we grow, and coffee & tea grows.**

At JDE we offer a competitive compensation & benefits package, for this role this includes a company car that is friendly for the environment, a bonus opportunity, 33 days of holidays, eco and meal vouchers, etcWe value meeting colleagues in the office (Esplanade 1, 1020 Brussels: only 10 minutes’ walk from Metro Heysel) and we enjoy our focus time when working from home. We support you in getting the right ergonomic material to work from home efficiently and even offer the op



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