Stra­te­gic ­Ca­te­go­ry ­Ma­na­ger Aus­tri­a (al­l ­gen­der­s) - par­t-­ti­me

• College degree, ideally business related.
• GS1/ECR Category Manager certification or equivalent.
• 3-5 years of professional experience, including category management, ideally some of it within the FMCG industry.
• Customer experience with ability to engage, influence and impact customers by providing guidance on strategic direction of category.
• Category Leadership expertise in relevant Category Management practices.
• Broad and in depth understanding of FMCG context and retail landscape, ideally within the Austrian market.
• High analytical acumen with ability to drive and translate insights into relevant strategies and tactics (actions / initiatives) internally and for execution with our customers.
• Good understanding of annual planning process within a corporation.
• Language fluency in both GERMAN and English required.

• Lead the development and execution of the category picture of success through strategic category plans, enabling us to build strong and sustainable category partnerships / captaincies for mutual, profitable and sustainable category growth of our respective categories.
• Deliver category vision content by developing a clear 3-year category strategy.
• Achieve competitive advantage through leveraging Mars and customer vision and strategies.
• Ensure collaborative category relationship to enable aligned account strategy plans.
• Deliver best-in-class Category Management by taking an objective total category perspective when providing market, consumer and shopper insights to customer/operational teams.
• Create category focused selling stories, identify listing opportunities/challenges, and provide merchandising solutions to maximize on-shelf delivery.
• Collaborate with insight colleagues to deliver in-depth account understanding.
• Understand and deploy vision to shelf for customer, leveraging pre-accomplished internal alignment behind customer category strategy.
• Identify and push forward tailored range opportunities for the account.
• Ensure category growth and objectivity are at heart of all interactions with customers, delivering step change in customer engagement at all levels.

• Work with over 150,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

If that is (or could be) you, apply now and JOIN THE TEAM!

Mars Austria OG is subject to the „KV Handel“ (collective bargaining agreement for trade), and offers a salary package above tariff. Mars Austria’s voluntarily higher base salary for this position starts at 2.295 € gross/month (for 19,25 hrs./week).