Bilingual Category Advisory Manager - Montreal or Toronto

This position can be located in either Montreal or Toronto

Identify, articulate, and commercialize key category growth ideas and opportunities to maximize our retailers' category growth potential while creating value for Coca-Cola Refreshments
• Create and maintain partnership with Sales Leads to become indispensable category partners with our Retail customers
• Recognize retail trends and steward back to the internal and external clients, in order to influence strategy and development of the category initiatives based on key growth trends
• Commercialize key beverage category strategic initiatives focused on driving category growth, championing category viability, and defending against category erosion
• Be the industry, channel & category subject matter expert to facilitate retailers' choice to select Coca-Cola as their key strategic partner

Deliver impartial and objective total store and beverage solutions for the retailer by providing differentiated, timely, relevant, and actionable insights
• Lead the category advisory interaction with account and customer team to address key business questions and build strategies and tactics designed for future category growth 
• Cultivate relationships within retailer's merchandising team and throughout the broader organization.
• Prepare and make presentations, including market and industry trends, SWOT, competitive review, assortment, and category reviews
• Collaborate with Shopper Insights and apply the learnings to identify customer & sales growth opportunities. Lead the delivery of the shopper insights facts & proposed action to the customer.
• Provide business situation assessment and support joint business plan development with key stakeholders
• Utilize and understand Nielsen, IRI, shopper card, and internal proprietary data and systems to generate actionable insights that will help Coca-Cola drive category insights with retailer partners

Requirements

EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree in Business or related field required.
EXPERIENCE:
Minimum Required: 
Bachelor's degree in Business or related field required.
Minimum 3 years CPG Industry
Minimum 2 year Category Management or
Minimum 3 year sales or financial analyst experience
Strong MS Office (MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel) skills
Strong working knowledge of syndicated data (e.g., Nielsen)
Knowledge of space planning software

SKILLS:
Advanced analytical capability –Action/solution based, Attention to Detail, Creative Thinking, ability to manage change, customer focused, 
Proven oral and written communication, story-telling, and influencing skills, strong presentation skills required
Strong project management skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and assignments

BILINGUAL FRENCH-ENGLISH Mandatory

Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada requires applicants to undergo a background verification process prior to commencing employment with the company. Employment with Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada is contingent on the satisfactory completion of a pre-employment background check.
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