Food Category Development Manager

Are you ready to join a multinational company and diverse team for outstanding achievements? Do you strive for unique challenges and experiences? Do you aspire to expand your professional competencies and skills? We are happy to offer an attractive and dynamic international working environment with numerous opportunities for development, reflecting our conviction that people are our most important and valuable asset.

Nestle Ukraine, worldwide leader in Food and Beverage industry, successfully working and developing in Ukraine, is announcing an opening of the Food Category Development Manager (BU Nestle Professional) position in Kyiv.

Main Responsibilities:

• Developing and executing, based on global strategies, local marketing-mix tactics;
• Collecting data about OOH consumers, customers, competition and presenting analysis on quarterly base;
• Developing tools and processes related to Market Intelligence: leverage 5C approach / Insight; 60/40+, NPPT, Brand building the Nestle Way for NP, Simplified cupping, Consumer buying behavior, Strategic Insight development;
• Establishing for Nestle Professional Food successful Lead Generation programs to fuel sales growth;
• Initiating, developing and executing Food category development initiatives (development of the new products and promotions), based on NPDI methodology to ensure category growth;
• Developing and executing innovation and renovation strategy together with regional team;
• Proposing, agreeing and executing through Marketing team merchandising standards for Food categories by BTL tools and promo activities initiatives according to the brand/category plan;
• Driving growth of Food categories by leading generation approach for Field Sales Force and KA's;
• Building with KA team yearly plan of customers development for key clients to accelerate growth for Food opportunities;
• Managing and controlling General Overhead expenses related to Marketing team.
  

Main Requirements:

• University degree (Business Management, Marketing or Economics are preferable);
• 5+ years experience in marketing (marketing department or advertising/research agency);
• Successful experience in development and executing of promotional brand activities in BTL, product development;
• Experience of working with market research data;
• Strong experience in NPDI;
• Experience with OOH is an advantage;
• Good knowledge and understanding of the OOH consumers, competition and the trade customers;
• Strong project management skills - effective organization and co-ordination;
  
• Well developed analytical, presentation, communication and negotiation skills;
• High level of PC skills;
• Fluent English.