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Stellenausschreibung

Edgewell is a global team of over 6,000 visionaries, doers and makers. Our secret is people, and we have an inspiring and collaborative global force of them. Our portfolio of over 25 brands touches lives in more than 50 countries by making useful things joyful. Together, we reimagine good mornings and endless summers, strive for more sustainable ways to beautify and bond, and do it all with not only confidence but determination.

Category Development/ Category Management Lead

Solingen, Germany, Hybrid Working

Permanent, attractive salary & benefits

Let's Talk About You

You’re ambitious, but you want a career with purpose - we love that. You’re up for a challenge and ready to write the next chapter of your career story with a great group of encouraging colleagues. You want to make your mark and let your personality shine. Well, if you’re interested in our Category Development Lead role, this might be your next step! We are looking for someone with Category Management and/or Shopper Insights experience to join Edgewell Personal Care – a global consumer goods business with a portfolio of over 25 brands (Wilkinson Sword, Intuition, Hawaiian Tropic, Bulldog Skincare for Men, WetOnes and Cremo Grooming… just to name a few!).

Now, Let’s Get Down to Business

At Edgewell we pride ourselves on our ability to build meaningful relationships with our retail customers. Category Development plays a huge role in doing this by helping create a joint vision to win and then supporting our teams to deliver on this through numerous activities across Brand and Private Label.

This position is as Category Development/ Category Management Lead within our high performing team. As the Category Development/ Management Lead you will be leading a team of up to 3 direct reports. We have significantly more category influence than our market shares would dictate, so require individuals who can quickly build rapport with customers and demonstrate the wider strategic thinking required to create engaging joint development plans.

Internally, this position is the expert in the category, providing the business with guidance on changing market/consumer/shopper dynamics and working cross-functionally to develop initiatives to realise optimal outcomes from these.

If there’s one thing you’ll get here at Edgewell, it’s a collaborative group full of likeable, diverse and nurturing colleagues. They’re an inspiring bunch. While your experience is of course important, we’re all about making useful things joyful, so we love when our prospective candidates are passionate about this too.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll get up to:
Generation of market, shopper & consumer insights:
o Responsibility for obtaining local household / retailer panel as well as ad-hoc consumer, shopper & market research incl. budget steering

o Development and compilation of management reportings based on household and retailer panel data

o Collaboration with international and local colleagues with regards to new shopper & consumer trends

o Organisation of trainings for internal colleagues on data sources, usage and interpretation

o Quality management of data from 3rd party suppliers

External Category Management:
o Intense cooperation with our top retailers for both our branded and private label business

o Execution of regular category management reviews with our retailers

o Regular analysis of market development and explanation of drivers, recommendations for portfolio, placement and promotions

o Analysis and support of ad hoc CM inquiries and CM projects for our top retailers

o Recommendations with the aim to realize retailers’ growth potentials in the category

Internal category consultancy

o Analysis of the market environment and drivers using generated market research data, retail/household panels, loyalty card and customer scanner data

o Interpretation of the data and recommendations for actions

o Projections for strategic planning

o Collaboration on trade stories for innovations

o Active participation in regular business reviews with top management

Are You Ready to Show Us What You’ve Got?

Ideally you will have Category or Insights experience gained within a commercial or consumer goods company & Leadership experience is a plus.

Here’s what we are looking for:

• Successfully completed university degree in Business Administration, ideally with a specialization on Market Research / Category Management
• Significant relevant work experience of working with retail & shopper panel data (e. g. Nielsen, GfK, Kantar) ideally gained in FMCG or in a market research agency
• Enthusiasm about data- and fact-based work and excellent analyt