Category Planning Manager

Job Description

Make an impact in ways that matter.
Join a business built on trusted brands, great people and teamwork, where care and fresh ideas help keep things moving.
Here, your contribution helps serve our customers, support our operations and enable our teams to do their best work.

You’ll be encouraged to bring your strengths, supported to grow, and welcomed into a team where we make a meaningful difference together.

Category Development - Category Planning Manager – Capability

What you become part of:

Reporting to the Category Strategy Senior Manager, the focus of this role is driving category strategy and performance through advanced reporting, tools, and process innovation, particularly within the ABP framework. The category planning manager will lead the development and implementation of category range review automation and supports the rollout and continuous improvement of key tools and technologies. The position also builds team capability through training and ensures consistency across category resources.

What to expect:

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• ABP process:
  • Lead the “always on” tracking of distribution and space by developing reporting tools and identifying opportunities across customers to shape the strategic direction with Senior Category managers.
• Category Range Review Automation:
  • Manage the relationship with DC Activ, continuing the journey of implementing Impact XP and further tool developments, including process, training and team support
  • Influence future tools functionalities and implement testing
• Lead the tools & technology capability training roadmap for the team and wider CD functions

• Support on maintaining a consistent Toolkit of strategic category resources:
  • Category Forecasts: Environment, Sector, IC/FC
  • Merchandising Principles
• Support on Category Strategic Projects e.g. Aisle of the Future

Skills and experience:

• Experience managing projects & driving change
• Strong organizational, networking and influencing skills
• Exposure to working in agile environment
• Quick to learn new systems & software

• Demonstrate passion, proactive ownership and resilience for growing the category
• Ability to influence and take people on the journey
• Behaviours: Drive for innovation, change, agile, curious mind set, resilience, determination, and drive are key
• Previous FMCG Category Management experience is desirable but not essential

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.