Kraft Heinz

Kraft Heinz seeks a passionate and driven First Food Retail Category Manager to make a difference! This position lies within the Italy Business Unit and is located in our Milan office. You’ll be working in a robust team, alongside peers always seeking to reach the next level.

This tole reports into the Commercial Category Lead and has the full ownership for the 6P´s Strategy of the Category – Proposition, Product, Pack, Price, Promotion and Place. Your mission is to constantly driving improvement activities through a growth mindset, further engaging both our internal and external consumers.

We are looking for a Category Manager with extensive experience in understanding consumer needs and the retail environment. You have a commercial mindset and a full comprehension of marketing and sales principles.

In brief, you take ownership of:

• The definition of the Retailer strategy and Channel strategy including price/pack format differentiation.
• The analysis of sellin/sellout data focused on customer/channel performance in order to monitor plans’ execution and performance.
• The Business Growth of the Kraft Heinz Company for the assigned category (First Food);
• Own relationship with account managers and be the main point of reference in the implementation of the commercial strategy.
• Work with sales on bottom-up planning from customer segmentation and customer surgeries.
• Working closely with Marketing, Sales and RGM, build the commercial plan for NPD – assumptions on cost price, margin and distribution targets by customer and channel and engage the sales in executional delivery of the plan;
• Work closely with sales, finance and supply to build accurate forecast by month, quarter and year considering the sellout, sell in and stocks in the market.

Qualifications

Hard Skills and capabilities

• University Degree, preferably from a Business School
• 4 – 5 years meaningful experience in category management and trade marketing, preferably in FMCG
• Interacting easily with team members and not afraid to step up and make things happen
• Ownership attitude, push to learn through new challenges and capability to drive results and lead independently of age/role
• Ability to work independently in an analytical and structured way
• Proficient in English and Italian

Professional Attributes

• Team player - Achieving results is nice, but achieving results with the team is simply the best. Being a standout colleague means you’re sometimes a leader, sometimes a follower but always working towards the same common goal together with your teammates.
• Project management skills - Time management has no secrets for you. You’re organized, structured and always have an overview of all the jobs to be done. You know how to bring multiple projects to a successful ending within the given timeframe.
• Commercial Sense - Always seeking for opportunities to expand your business and build more savings, while over delivering your targets.
• Analytical - We’re a very data driven company, making it crucial to be able to translate sophisticated data into a simple solution with an analytical approach.
• Interpersonal Skills - At Kraft Heinz, people are easily exposed to senior management, no matter the level. Therefore, excellent communication skills to deal with all kinds of different collaborators is important.

What we offer you

• A daring employer with a fast career track like only few other companies can match;
• A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market);
• Permanent contract; for we believe in doing big bets on people;
• Flexibility; we have a hybrid working model providing you with the empowerment to take ownership of your work-life balance.
• Always room for new insights; if you have an excellent idea, please let us know, and we can set it in action!