CS&P Manager, Condiments

Title of role: Category Planning Manager, US Condiments Background & Purpose of the Job At Unilever, we believe passionately in a purpose-driven business. And our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace. Working at Unilever as a Category Planning Manager means you are joining a world-class Category Strategy & Planning organization that oversees category strategy, category and shopper insights, commercial planning, and shopper marketing expertise in our US Nutrition business unit. US Nutrition manifesto is to make affordable Nutrition accessible to the many with purpose led brands such as Hellmann’s, Knorr, Sir Kensington, and Maille. This will focus on our Condiments portfolio across Mayonnaise, Mustards, and Sauces. Category Planning function works closely with Field Sales, Marketing (local and global), Shopper Marketing, Finance, Net Revenue Management, Supply Chain, and internal Trade Marketing functions bringing commercial strategies to the retail (including eComm) with flawless execution achieving US Condiments top and bottom-line growth plans. Category Planning Manager, US Condiments, will be the voice of the customer and the shopper within the US Condiments cross-functional business team ensuring channel and customer insights are incorporated in developing short and long term brand and customer commercial plans that coincides with retailers’ strategies. The role reports into the Category Planning Team Lead, US Condiments. For our part at Unilever, we commit to providing you with experiences that allow you to become a world-class marketer, to bring your purpose to life at work, and provide you the growth opportunities you need for long-term career success. With amazing benefits and a state-of-the-art newly remodeled headquarters, you will have the support you need to bring your whole self to work each and every day, to thrive, to drive your business to thrive, and to work on projects that excite you. Who You Are & What You’ll Do The Category Planning Manager role will need to bring dynamic attitude and passion to:

• Strong background in data and analytics and enjoys dividing deep into big data sets
• Translating data into insights and insights into action by crafting commercial plans that executes against Category Growth Strategy across Category Value Drivers
• Partnering in S&OP gathering key demand driving inputs from customer and brand teams to ensure US Condiments has the appropriate demand forecast to support in-market activity.
• Crafting channel and customer trade budgets and annual growth targets that ladder up to US Condiments P&L business delivery meeting Top & Bottomline financial KPIs
• Diving deep into Channel pricing, distribution gaps, competitive analysis, trade optimizations, promotional analysis, and shopper insights to build Commercial Plans