Category Marketing Manager (m/f/d), Dairy

Manchester, UK (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own regional category strategy and drive growth across demand, pipeline, and sales enablement, turning market insights into a regional plan, with accountability for profitability and cross-functional execution.

  • Global category plan: Represent their region and join a cross-functional team to develop the global category strategy (5+ yr horizon). Bring specific regional market trends, insights and unmet needs to shape the development of this global category plan. Contribute to the development of the regional technical roadmap for their category.
  • Demand generation and pipeline: partner with the digital demand team to develop campaigns for the category and drive opportunity pipeline growth for the category.
  • Market intelligence and customer engagement: build market/competitor intelligence and participate in customer meetings to shape solutions and win deals.

Job Description

Own regional category strategy and drive growth across demand, pipeline, and sales enablement, turning market insights into a regional plan, with accountability for profitability and cross-functional execution.

  • Global category plan: Represent their region and join a cross-functional team to develop the global category strategy (5+ yr horizon). Bring specific regional market trends, insights and unmet needs to shape the development of this global category plan. Contribute to the development of the regional technical roadmap for their category.
  • Category Business Reporting: Ensure results are reported consistently across the business. Guide the development of the budget & strategic plan for their category. Conduct on a regular basis an analysis of the profitability of the category and identify actions to improve it.
  • Customers & Growth
  • Customer Engagements & Opportunity Conversion: Participate in customer meetings to build market knowledge, inform solution development and help convert sales opportunities leveraging key insights. Support sales prospecting process through the development of target customer lists; Track progress on engaging with “must win” customers.
  • Market Intelligence: Market & competitor intelligence for the category. Identify share of wallet and headroom for growth by customer. Leverage inputs to shape strategy & plans.
  • Act as the Marketing lead for major category customers and shape account plans.
  • Regional category growth
  • Lead a cross-functional team to drive the implementation of the category annual growth plan.
  • Pipeline Development: Partner with Sales and technical service to drive opportunity pipeline growth for the category.
  • Prospecting: Support sales prospecting process through the development of target customer lists; Tracks progress.
  • Demand generation: Partner with the digital demand team to develop campaigns for the category.
  • Sales enablement: work with the go to market enablement team to develop or adapt sales enablement tools to region-specific needs. Train regional team on product portfolio and category trends/insights.
  • Innovation
  • Generate an ongoing, consolidated view of regional priority customer problems to solve.
  • Accountable for regional business case development for innovation projects.
  • Co-ordinates execution of new product launches within Develop strong value propositions for the launches backed by powerful concepts and consumer insights.
  • Category Strategy: Represent their region and join a cross-functional team to develop the global category strategy (5+ yr horizon). Bring specific regional market trends, insights and unmet needs to shape the development of this global category plan. Contribute to the development of the regional technical roadmap for their category.
  • Category Business Reporting: Ensure results are reported consistently across the business. Guide the development of the budget & strategic plan for their category. Conduct on a regular basis an analysis of the profitability of the category and identify actions to improve it.
  • Customers & Growth
  • Market Intelligence: Market & competitor intelligence for the category. Identify share of wallet and headroom for growth by customer. Leverage inputs to shape strategy & plans.
  • Act as the Marketing lead for major category customers and shape account plans.
  • Regional category growth
  • Lead a cross-functional team to drive the implementation of the category annual growth plan.
  • Pipeline Development: Partner with Sales and technical service to drive opportunity pipeline growth for the category.
  • Prospecting: Support sales prospecting process through the development of target customer lists; Tracks progress.
  • Demand generation: Partner with the digital demand team to develop campaigns for the category.
  • Sales enablement: work with the go to market enablement team to develop or adapt sales enablement tools to region-specific needs. Train regional team on product portfolio and category trends/insights.
  • Innovation

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~191

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (3% of company)