Customer Trade Marketing Specialist - Health & Hygiene Brands

- Customer Trade Marketing Specialist

- Market analyses & consumer insights

- Part of the marketing team

Client Details

Our client is a well known organization focusing on providing health and hygiene brands that make a difference.

For their Marketing Team in the BNL region they are currently looking for a Customer Trade Marketing Manager.

Ideally, you will already have evolved on a category manager position and would like to evolve into a role where you can use these skills and develop your managerial abilities with a dynamic team!

Does this sound like the ideal place for you?

Description

As the successful Customer Trade Marketing Specialist, you will have the following responsibilities:

Build trustful and ongoing relationship with customers, sharing market/category/consumer trends. Establish the company as a customer partner and category expert.

Develop and execute effective 4P strategy by customer/channel mix to maximise profitability - in collaboration with Brand Trade Marketing team, with true opportunity to create and drive change.

Identify opportunities and risks, to deliver the optimum plans against these, and to drive the business toward rapid and decisive action plans to win.

Implement category strategies and vision across customers: lead and support the implementation of promotional strategy, assortment & shelving optimization, and NPD launch across customers, in line with brand priorities

Partner with KAMs to recommend in-store actions aimed at strengthening the position within categories. Perform ongoing ROI analysis across a broad range of activities to guide effective commercial outcomes and support trade spend optimization objectives.

Monitor categories and customer performance through monthly analysis releases on sell-in/sell-out data, share business improvement opportunities in monthly business review meetings.

Co-Manage, grow and develop a team of one junior and one intern

Profile

As the successful Customer Trade Marketing Specialist, you will have the following requirements:

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in category management within FMCG.
  
  
• Demonstrable commercial acumen and a good understanding of customer management processes.
  
  
• Strong communication and influencing skills both externally with customers as well as internally at all levels of the organization.
  
  
• Analytical skills and ability to interpret & transform data into concrete recommendations.
  
  
• Strong knowledge of Syndicated Data (e.g. Nielsen Nitro/Answers).
  
  
• Advanced usage of Excel, PowerPoint, and basic Space management software.
  
  
• Strong oral, written communication, and presentation skills.
  
  
• 1st experience in people management.
  
  
• Fluency in either Dutch and/or French is a must, as well as in English for the internal interaction part.

Job Offer

As the successful Customer Trade Marketing Specialist, you will enjoy:

a Great brands, great business, great benefits

a competitive reward package that recognizes outperformance (Base salary, Bonus, Mobility reimbursment, Insurances, Net allowances, Home offce allowances, Meal Vouchers, 32 days off, ...)

You are given the freedom to succeed and our stimulating work environment sparks innovation and creativity

As being part of a global business, you enjoy the diverse career development opportunities we offer.