Category Manager Finland
DK Permanent - Ref: 402485
HARIBO
Welcome to HARIBO, Europe’s largest and most successful sugar-confectionery brand! Our mission is to bring happiness to kids and grown-ups and we’re looking for talented people to join our team to help us spread some joy.
The Role
As a Category Manager at HARIBO, you will have the opportunity to make a true business impact and drive growth for our company. Your role will involve planning and executing strategies to deliver volume, value, and market share growth in collaboration with your local market Finland.
Based at our Nordic Head office in Vallensbaek near Copenhagen or our office in Finland - Vantaa, you will report directly to the Team Manager - Category Management Nordics..
Mix that awaits you
- Collaborate with Nordic managers on strategic tasks, including business reviews, reports, KPI dashboards, analyses, and presentations for Nordic and global meetings.
- Develop channel strategies and tools, such as price-pack-channel projects and channel growth plans, in collaboration with the Finnish sales team.
- Conduct category analysis to lay the foundation for our innovation pipeline, projects, and assortment strategy.
- Provide analytic inputs and create presentation materials for our retail customers, supporting our Key Account Managers.
- Set the direction for the media mix and ensure strong execution of our marketing mix.
- Monitor and evaluate market development (brand, product and competition.
Ingredients that you bring with you
- MSc (Cand. Merc) / B.Com. (HD part 2) or equivalent
- Min. 3 years of relevant experience from FMCG, and of this minimum 1 years in Category Management
- Fluency in Finnish and in English (written and oral)
- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint with advanced skills
- Experienced in working with POS data (Kesko and SOK), GfK data and/or other relevant shopper insights data sources
- Strong problem-solving and complex analysis skills
- Commercial and analytical approach to projects, with a creative and idea driven mind-set
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Experience working with Finnish retailers is an advantage (not required)
- Highly motivated and engaged individual
- Your commitment and energy have a positive impact on your surroundings, and you contribute to a constructive working environment.
The HARIBO family
You will be part of a successful family business with traditional values that is growing internationally at a faster pace than ever before. We believe in long-term employee relationships, a good work-life balance, training and a fair share in company success. We make every effort to support our employees – every day anew.
We embrace the colourful HARIBO world as a successful family business out of conviction – and have done so for 100 years. We are popular the world over, as we systematically focus all our efforts on fruit gummy indulgence. We can thus also grow internationally at a faster pace than ever before.
This unique success is based on our team spirit as a close-knit HARIBO family. We entrust people with responsibility and freedom, so that they can always make the best decisions. When it comes to business, we focus on long-term success, with quality our top priority: from top products to our interaction with the people who make up our team and surround us, we keep our promises.
Unbeatable passion like this comes from childlike joy, as we enjoy working at HARIBO. And this is something we pass on – day after day.
Join HARIBO, Europe's largest and most successful sugar-confectionery brand, and be a part of our mission to bring happiness to kids and grown-ups. We are currently seeking talented individuals to join our team and help us spread joy to young business people!