Responsibilities:

- Communicate Food & FMCG category strategy, objectives and performance targets with marketing leadership and ensure overall alignment.

- Develop and maintain marketing marketplace knowledge; identify and monitor trends.

- Develop collaborative relationships with the marketing team, stakeholders, and suppliers.

- Prioritize and manage all strategic sourcing initiatives for category & coordinate efforts with support functions.

- Interact with cross-functional teams to ensure effective and collaborative seller sourcing decisions.

- Liaise with business units to gather and standardize requirements.

- Develop market intelligence on supply base, support key vendor relationships based on assigned categories and monitor key strategies and vendors.

- SEO and organic user acquisition.

- Drive marketing and sales plans.

Ready the Team - Ensure readiness across segment and partner teams.

Tell the Product and Profitability Story - Land local product and category stories with partners including pitch decks and readiness meetings so they are leading sale in aligned to Company's priorities.

Work with the leadership team to set strategic priorities, align regional and company vision, and share best practices.

Problem Solving: Delve deep into ongoing operations and find long-term structural solutions to problems.

SKILLS:

Be a relentless driver who is skilled in getting work done by influencing others - both internally and externally.

Excellent problem solving and analytical skills - ability to develop hypotheses, understand and interpret data within the context of the product / business - solve problems and distill data into actionable recommendations.

Have experience planning and executing marketing strategies and activities that drive business results while remaining true to the brand.

Intellectual and analytical curiosity - initiative to dig into the why, what & how.

An extremely positive - Can Do- attitude which continuously drives you to take initiative and demonstrate a high degree of self-motivation.

Be a confident leader, representing your business in front of partners and stakeholders at all levels inside and outside the company.

Have a successful track record in managing and expanding a category attaining key category KPIs.

Have relevant industry experience for the category that he will be handling.

A character that exemplifies IM values including integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, and mutual respect.

Expertise in Business analytics tools & statistical programming languages - SQL, NoSQL tools, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau will be a plus.

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