Category Trade Marketing Manager - Grocery Ice Cream

Who You Are And What You’ll Do

As the Sector Trade Marketing Manager - Ice Cream, you will play a key role in driving growth opportunities, influencing sound financial decisions, and solving business issues. The focus of the position is to serve as key support and Category expert for the Grocery Sector and key stakeholders within Unilever.

You will report directly to the Sector Category Business Development Manager and will work closely with Division BDM’s, TMA’S, CBM’s, Rsms, Sales Analysts, CCD, and Team Leaders to achieve our goals. This role is vital to the success of the Grocery business and will help ensure our strategic/financial health in the Sector. It will require someone who is self-motivated with excellent influencing skills, has an ability to work independently and is team oriented.

• Engineer new capabilities that assess different business models to maximize customer and retailer profitability and value creation; including but not limited to Net Revenue Management, Omni-Channel and Route-to-Market efficiencies.
• Responsible for assisting the Sector Category Business Development Manager as the key liaison/contact between Sector Teams and CCD.
• Identify category growth opportunities within the sector and build supporting business case to influence CCD
• Maximize ROI of investment activities through detailed analysis to improve sales, trade spend, product mix, efficiency, etc.
• Work with Division BDMs to develop and execute programs consistent with brand strategy.
• Support fully integrated business planning process such as internal planning requirements including managing to zero overspend, NIP, share and SCM targets.
• Provide analysis (volume/share) to identify key consistent up/down elevators across the Sector & Category
• Drive forecast integrity/accuracy through understanding of business drivers and macro/micro economic trends and insights.
• Lead the Category C-Pod Teams
• Support Sector efforts and recommendations for all Go-To-Market, business planning, and business systems excellence initiatives and governance.
• Collaborate with CCD to ensure the field teams are aware of & working with the most up to date Brand/Category details
• Drive & coordinate category volume/merchandising plan development across the Sector

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Positive attitude takes ownership and initiative to fix problems
• Problem Solving, possess solid judgment, and decision-making ability, and can deal with ambiguity.
• Deep understanding of the P&L, retail math, analytics, financial/strategic modeling, forecasting, etc
• Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to multi-task & prioritize.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years of related customer business experience including proven success in an analytical role in which you added value to the organization
• In depth knowledge of excel, tableau, SASS, Nielsen, PowerBi

What We Can Offer You

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Pay: The pay range for this position is $96,000 to $143,900. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

Unilever is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, credit check and DMV check.

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