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Category Development Manager (CDT) - S.PELLEGRINO, PERRIER & ACQUA PANNA

Nestlé Waters & Healthy Beverages provides pure and natural quality water solutions for all consumers, wherever they are, and inspire them to lead healthier lives. We work tirelessly to care for our water resources and we are now using recycled PET plastic across most of our brands. Our ambition is to create a circular economy for plastics, reducing our virgin PET plastic use by a third by 2025.

Do you want to be part of Nestlé Waters BENELUX category development team? Are you a team player with a high degree of independence, dynamism and responsibility? Then this role is a unique opportunity for you! As a Category Development Manager , you will support the business to lead and develop the category to deliver long term category growth and profitably increase market shares. You will be part of the Benelux commercial development team and will report directly to the Head of the Commercial Development Team. You will support 2 Key Account Managers in NL and 3 in BE.

We offer exciting challenges in sales and marketing as well as the opportunity to work with iconic international brands such as PERRIER, S.PELLEGRINO, ACQUA PANNA. The role is based in our office in Amstelveen, with regular travel to Brussels.

As a Category Development Manager you have the following responsibilities:

• Create the yearly strategic plan for our Dutch retail and Benelux out of home channels. Recommend tailored category plan in line with overall market strategy.

• Ensure that channels' strategy and plans are implemented to deliver category growth based on consumer, shopper and customer insights.

• Establish clear promotional plans based on market knowledge and business strategy, and continuously evaluate the effectiveness of our trade investments.

• Activate our brands in-store via POSM. Together with marketing ensure aligned execution of our brand-strategy on the shopfloor and lead its implementation.

• Establish winning commercial propositions and support the development of customer and field sales plans. Actively support on new territories hunt and business development opportunities.

• Implement the Nestlé shelf vision by advising retailers and out-of-home wholesalers with planograms.

• Gather insights from various sources and turn these into actionable solutions for customers.

• Drive and lead strategic revenue management projects and take initiative to positively contribute to our growth and margin improvements.

What we are looking for in our Category Development Manager:

• You have at least 5 years of experience in a commercial environment (FMCG) in a commercial and data driven role;

• You have strong communication skills and are fluent in Dutch, English, French is a plus;

• You have strong analytical and stakeholder management skills;

• You have an entrepreneurial and data driven mindset;

• You have demonstrated experience in turning numbers into stories and action plans;

• You are comfortable with complexity and multi-tasking;

• Since the role is cross functional, your co-operation and team skills are critical to get your colleagues on board;

• Flexibility to travel to Brussels & be on the field with customers one day per week.

The vacancy offers more than just a challenge:

• A fulltime position (39 hours a week);

• excellent terms of employment, with elements depending on your base country (BE of NL);

• a large availability and variety of corporate training and development programs;

• career opportunities, within the Netherlands, Belgium as well as international;

• an excellent working environment, high team orientation, high brand and company pride, and motivated and ambitious colleagues.

Respect is at the heart of Nestlé's culture, of which room for differences is an important part. Differences between people who buy our products and in our workplace. We believe it is important that everyone feels welcome and safe at Nestlé, regardless your gender, religion, cultural background, age, disability or who you love. We are convinced that diversity leads to more creativity and innovation and moves our organization forward. That is why we actively work to create a culture and leadership that offers equal opportunities for all!

Any questions?

Our recruiters would be glad to answer any pending questions. Feel free to send your questions to careers@nl.nestle.com and you will receive an answer within 3 working days.

Applying for the role of Category Development Manager?

Great! If you see a match with the description as described above we would gladly receive your cv and motivation. You can upload these via the link.

We use an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tool to schedule interviews with our candidates. So keep an eye on your email for the interview invitation! When registering your application, you will be asked if we may send you whatsapp messages; if you answer 'yes' to this, you will receive communication via whatsapp in addition to messages via email. Communication through our AI tool is in English, but our recruiters speak both English and Dutch.

Interim CV’s will not be processed