Customer Category Development Manager

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Do you want to drive category development and growth together with our customers? Are you creative, commercially savvy, and love to back up your ideas with data driven insights? Can you lead and influence internal and external stakeholders? Then you might be our next Customer Category Development Manager! Your objective will be to drive revenue for our snacking categories and ensure growth for our customers through better category management and retailer strategies.

You will ensure that customer plans are developed and embedded into our internal growth strategies and tactics. You will create clear customer recommendations based upon market trends and data. You understand the business metrics and financial drivers needed to unlock profitable growth for Mondelēz International and our customers.

Come join us, to work with Freia, Kvikk Lunsj, Oreo, Ritz and Philadelphia – some of the absolute strongest brands in the Norwegian FMCG market!

How you will contribute

You will: 

• Drive category growth and development with our key customers within our snacking categories

• Influence investment in category building blocks, according to category and channel need

• Understand market dynamics and shopper/consumer insights by channel to drive internal and external channel strategies.

• Play a pivotal role within the internal cross functional teams, by providing relevant customer insights and channel trends, and defining business opportunities.

• Monitor market and competition to identify business opportunities and potential threats.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Category planning and delivering growth through category leadership

• Having a future-focused mindset, being curious about industry trends, digital solutions, AI and innovation for consumers, and translating opportunities into business plans

• Developing and delivering plans, measuring and monitoring results and making recommendations to achieve growth targets

• Business planning and how to maximize category revenue growth for our customers

• Influencing stakeholders and interacting effectively with others with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view

• Analytical skills and business acumen. Experience with analytical tools like Nielsen IQ and retailer-specific tools.  

• Proven experience in the fast-moving consumer goods field

What you need to know about this position:  

We are looking for person who has:  

• analytical skills

• excellent communication and interpersonal skills  

• a highly proactive and driven mindset, with the ability to drive initiatives forward with great cooperation in the team 

• experience of working in a project format.

Education:

• bachelor’s degree minimum within relevant field i.e. business, economics, marketing.

Job specific requirements:  

• minimum 5 years of experience is required.

• experience in FMCG sector is required 

• experience with Revenue Growth Management is a plus.

• experience working in Nielsen IQ is required

• Dunnhumby is a plus 

• written and oral fluency in English is required  

• fluency in Norwegian is a plus.

Travel requirements:

• no relevant

Work schedule:

• fulltime based in our Oslo office

We offer:  

• the office is centrally located at Rodeløkka in Oslo

• free parking and charging stations for electric cars  

• beneficial discounts in employee stores  

• digital services from Avonova, e.g., video doctor and psychologist  

• fully equipped gym and company sports club  

• the opportunity to rent company cabins .

Mondelez Norge AS er del av Mondelez International, verdens ledende snackselskap. Våre norske røtter kan spores helt tilbake til etableringen av Freia i 1889. Sjokoladeproduksjonen foregår fremdeles på fabrikken på Rodeløkka i Oslo.

Hva gjør det så spesielt å jobbe for Mondelez International?
Det er mange ting. Våre ikoniske merkevarer og globale virksomhet. Kontinuerlig innovasjon og endeløse muligheter til å utvikle deg. Muligheten til å få folk til å smile hver eneste dag. Vi er verdens ledende produsent av sjokolade og kjeks, med merkevarer som Freia, Kvikk Lunsj, Daim, O’Boy, Oreo og Ritz – og vi har nå en spennende mulighet for deg til å bli en del av dette.