Foods Philippines Commercial Operations & Planning Assistant Manager - Route to Market

Role Title: Foods Philippines Commercial Operations & Planning Assistant Manager - Route to Market
Function: ​Foods​
Reports to: ​Foods Philippines Commercial Operations & Planning Lead​
Scope: ​Philippines​
Location: BGC - Office Based
Terms & Conditions: ​Full Time​

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE:

• ​​Deploy category growth strategy for relevant channels based on category data, shopper insights, and retailer/channel opportunities. 
• ​Develop and deploy robust category commercial plans and define right investment model to deliver competitive and profitable business results in key channels. 
• ​Drives GM mindset and is well equipped on NRM principles
• ​Able to translate insights to actions to deliver short -mid term impact to the business
• ​Defines category channel execution blueprint to ensure our brands reach and win shoppers at both the physical and digital shelves. 
• ​Brings the voice of the shoppers and/or retailers into the country business unit, to ensure plans are designed for channel, esp in terms of portfolio and deployment plans. 
• ​Collaborates with cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance to drive category-channel growth agenda internally in Unilever. 
• ​Ownership of Promo and Mix Strategy for the Category
• ​Plays an important role in crafting Joint Business Planning with CBD customers
• ​Key targets: P&L Delivery, category growth, spend efficiency.  ​

Experiences & Qualifications:

• ​​Strategic, collaborative, proactive, detail-oriented, data-driven, innovative/creative.  
• ​Shopper- and consumer-obsessed: strives to understand consumers and shoppers to know the right triggers and barriers to drive behavioural change. 
• ​Data-driven creator: doesn’t just analyse data, but is able to translate data into actionable insights to create category growth programs with channels and retailers. 
• ​Curious about the unknown and finds proactive ways to learn and upskill, unlock new ways of doing things or new approaches to old processes to lead to pioneering executions.  
• ​Business acumen and ownership mindset: understands key levers to deliver business results and takes ownership of results. 
• ​Project Management and Communication skills: able to manage project networks, can clearly and effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional partners to land projects and shared objectives OTIF. 
• ​Strategic influencing: able to drive category agenda with different high-level stakeholders and partners to deliver business objectives.  

Skills:

• ​​Category management 
• ​Shopper channel marketing  
• ​Trade Marketing 
• ​Familiar with data analytics tools and dashboards 
• ​Digital/Dcommerce marketing is a plus
• ​Team leadership 

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