ORGANISATION
We’re innocent and while we make little drinks, we also have big dreams to keep people healthy and make sure our communities and our planet are healthy too.
innocent is the fastest growing drinks brand in Europe. With offices in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan and Madrid, it’s our mission to become the world’s favorite little healthy drinks company. Our business in the Benelux region, which is managed through the Amsterdam office, has grown significantly over the last few years. We became the nr 2 chilled juice and smoothie brand in the Netherlands and even nr 1 in Belgium. We have also set up the brand in Southern Europe such as Spain, Italy and Portugal. In Italy after only 3 years in business we’re already nr 1 brand in chilled juice.
In order to support our business in these countries we are looking for an enthusiastic and analytical BLINI (Benelux + Southern Europe):
CATEGORY MANAGER
POSITION
In order to support this growth and strengthen our regional business, we have a Category Manager role in place, to support our commercial and marketing teams with regional category expertise. This role will report into the F+ Category & Insight Team Leader, Leila Dekali, based in Paris and work closely with the local Benelux and Mediterranean account and brand managers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- You’re the bridge between marketing and sales, by collecting and analysing a huge amount of data (shopper, consumer and customer data) to shape it into flawless category visions;
- You’re able to combine data with a strong gutfeel and understand how to build credible category stories;
- You’re a great speaker, able to convince fierce retailers through insight-based stories and take them on board about your vision and objectives for the category;
- With your passion for and experience in FMCG you understand how to win in-store and how to convert more shoppers into buyers for the brand but also for the wider Chilled Juice category;
- You build the best long term action plan and strategy for each market to succeed in attracting new shoppers and driving bigger baskets;
- You’re a chameleon and can adapt your speech to various markets with different cultural environments (Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy & Portugal);
- All this with innocent tone of voice and visual identity.
PROFILE CANDIDATE
EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor or academic degree;
- You already have a successful experience in category management;
- You speak Dutch and English fluently.
RELEVANT COMPETENCIES:
- You’re an ambitious and analytical category manager;
- Working with customer and shopper data (Nielsen/IRI and Kantar);
- Creating great category vision and engaging presentations;
- Being comfortable in data processing but, being able to step back to see the bigger picture and leave your audience with only the key messages;
- Being able to communicate naturally and build trust relationships;
- Managing all stakeholders and responsibilities of this role with great organization skills and time management (having to deal with both strategic category management and retailer-facing implementation across 5 very different countries).
