Asahi Beverages New Zealand Looking for Category Executive at Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

Your Impact

The Category Executive is responsible for providing high quality category and shopper insights that provide strategic and tactical direction for commercial business decisions and communications.

This role will see the Category Executive supporting the Category Manager RTDs with Category Reviews, Portfolio planning and NPD development. In addition, you will be responsible for, and own, internal reporting for the ABNZ business as well as managing data supplier relationships. This is a broad role which will see you engage and be exposed to all levels of the business.

This role is a great step up for someone with FMCG/ Grocery/ Retail sales experience ready for some autonomy and has an analytical mind!

Key responsibilities

• Provide full Category Management support to our crucial RTD portfolio.
• Accountable for management of scan data and Nielsen/IRI business relationships.
• Set up & maintain ongoing business reporting to identify trends in local market, including ownership of key reports and implementation of Nielsen Discover/Power BI reporting.
• Mine and disseminate market intelligence on global and local market trends to provide long term view on changing category and shopper needs
• Deliver regular updates to the business on long & short term trends and competitor launches from lead overseas markets
• Build and present multi-source insights to support business direction and strategy, and customer category reviews, JBP, Partnership
• Support Category Managers on ad-hoc basis.

About You

• Tertiary Educated
• Advanced Excel
• FMCG / Liquor / Beverages experience
• Previous Sales and Marketing experience

Why Asahi Beverages?

Asahi Beverages is one of the leading beverage companies in Australia and New Zealand with a rich and varied history. Comprising some of Australia and New Zealand’s most loved brands, the company’s Regional Hub is based in Melbourne with four Business Divisions – Asahi Premium Beverages, Asahi Lifestyle Beverages (formerly Schweppes Australia) and Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) in Australia; and Asahi Beverages NZ and The Better Drinks Co. in New Zealand. There’s always a great deal going on and opportunities abound for those ready to take them!