Description:
Unilever is looking for Category Operations Manager
Role Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the Category Operations Manager are in two key areas, with support of the CCD lead:
Operational Lead for Categories
- Lead the ARM & DRM meetings within S&OP – drive the business planning rhythm as well as an accurate and reliable category forecast.
- Working with Customer Managers and Country Category Business Teams (CCBT) Finance collate gap close activities as defined by the CCD Lead.
- Own & Deliver the short term category forecast – responsible for delivering what we say we will deliver via ARM process and DRM alignment.
- Optimise TTS investment (NRM Levers 4&5) to drive efficiency by championing the Promotional Event Analytics (PEA) tool
- Working with the brand lead, input and shape NPD business case development with key category and customer metrics & inputs.
Lead Category Analytics
- Ability to analyse market (scan) and shopper data to build insights to support decision making and build customer strategies and stories
- Build category knowledge and expertise within CCD and across the business by generating standardised category market (scan) data reporting and analysis (Monthly cadence)
- Support the CCD Lead with customer and category insights from standardised reporting to shape category expertise or range review delivery
- Collaborate with other Category Operations Managers and CCD Leads to build and unlock new reporting or tools to streamline processes and improve operational business efficiency.
Key Accountabilities
- Accountable for the Forecast delivery and accuracy in defined category
- Delivery of accurate Business Case deployment for all customers and channels
- Optimise TTS% & ROI for the category via NRM level 4 & 5 analysis and recommendations
- Support the CCD Leads delivery of category growth plans with analytical reporting and insights