Category and Commercial Strategy Manager - 2 year contract

Please note: Visa sponsorship or relocation will not be offered for this position.

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Advil, Voltaren, Robax, NeoCitran, Buckley’s, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

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JOB PURPOSE:

Do you want to be part of a team where you can contribute to developing strategic capabilities and accelerate revenue growth in the fastest-growing company among the Top 20 CPG organizations in Canada? Are you an individual with an entrepreneurial mindset, capable of managing multiple projects at a time, detail oriented, with strong financial acumen and Excel understanding, and, more importantly, willing to continue learning? If so, the Category and Commercial Strategy Manager role could be exactly what you have been looking for.

Portfolio Management is a strategic key organizational capability area that will help deliver our Canadian financial ambition.

In our newly created role, you will be responsible for leading the analytics, development of recommendations to optimize and protect our shelf while implementing SKU Rationalization recommendations and innovation, including:

• Support SKU performance, financial analysis, and portfolio evaluation.
• Cross-Collaboration with Category Development, Supply Chain, Sales, and Marketing to drive alignment with the portfolio optimization recommendations.
• Execution of recommendations to optimize planogram sets, considering timing for each customer, inventories, and logistics.
• Communicate and report key stakeholders about progress on a monthly basis (MBR).
• Updating scorecards and monitoring progress vs target, including gross margin impact driven by mix changes.
  
  
  

This role provides the ideal candidate the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative work environment where both performance and personal development matter.

Two-year contract, first year scope of the work 100% on Category Management, Year 2: Scope of the work 100% Revenue Growth Management.

WHY JOIN HALEON:

• Competitive compensation package.
• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture.
• Commitment to development and career progression.
• Hybrid model in a modern office located in Mississauga.
• Fitness centre, and bistro onsite.
  
  
  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This role will provide YOU with the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following…

• Understand Haleon’s portfolio performance and competitive landscape by category. (i.e. Sales, Growth vs PY, Share of Market, Distribution, etc…).
• Digest current portfolio recommendations and key variables that lead to it (refer to internal tools).
• Work with the category development team to better understand the customers' planogram layouts, SKU implications, and timing by category.
• Create a master program to manage changes in the planogram, timing, communication with customers, and execution.
• Customize retailer presentations and recommendations, and play a key role in selling to customers.
• Develop an internal scorecard to track progress and financial impact driven by portfolio optimization recommendations.
  
  
  

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or a related field.
• 3 to 4 years’ background in an analysis or business strategy role, preferably in CPG.
• Strong experience using Nielsen syndicated data.
• Solid understanding of JDA planogram software experience
• Strong written and verbal presentation communication skills to influence an audience.
• Ability to build strong relationships with colleagues across all functions and brands.
• Demonstrated ability to perform analytics and generate results by using Excel.
• Innovative thinking to develop insight-based recommendations and implement strategies to increase profitability.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint) and POWER BI.
• Self-starter with strong interpersonal skills, including being an excellent communicator and presenter.
• Detail-oriented, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
  
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Retail Management Experience.
• Revenue Management Background.
• Category Management Background.
• Ability to interpret a P&L statement.
  
  
  

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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