Design for Channel Associate: Global Value Channel

Background & Purpose of the Job

‘Design 4 Channels’ and ‘Design for Retailer’ are new business models created with the strategic intent of driving channel and customers shift into high growth / future fit spaces. They will accelerate our growth towards the 4Bi+ turnover ambition for the Value Channel by 2024, with 60%+ our business winning competitively.

D4C and D4R Visions are to serve Shoppers & Customers sustainably everywhere through a CHANNEL–FIT OPERATING SYSTEM (Org model / Capabilities / Processes) for both the Global Value Channel and the Centralized Value Channel Retailers (Lidl, Aldi, Action). The Main pillars are

pioneer a differentiated, future-fit PORTFOLIO

drive CONTENT & DEMAND CREATION across the end-to-end P2P

and EXECUTE with excellence

The Global Design for Channel Associate will support the Global Value Channel team with in-depth data and insights assistance with ongoing business requests, as well provide strategic assistance with specific D4C and D4R project streams across Divisions and top Markets. The D4CA will also interact and leverage on NRM, CMI and Category knowledge to ensure all insights feed into the main projects.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do

You have a Passion for High Performance:  You take personal responsibility for both execution and results. Your approach to growing the business motivates those around you, increasing the speed of results. You take an owners mindset to the problems you are tasked to solve, using data and insights to make the best solution in the moment.

You have Personal Mastery: You are resilient and self-motivated. This role will involve influencing many cross-functional stakeholders, at different levels of the organization and with sometimes conflicting KPI’s (which means managing friction). You achieve results through strong business relationships built on emotional intelligence, empathy and accountability.

You have strong Business Acumen: You’re able to deliver projects on time and in full across Divisions and Markets. You’re able to create solutions by understanding what is important to each of your key stakeholders (Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain), and can help solve for road blocks.

You’re extremely Agile: You believe in exploring new ideas, learning from the past, and applying these learnings to future plans. You aren’t afraid to adjust your style to the situation in order to deliver results and you have a healthy dissatisfaction for the status quo.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

Proven ability to manage projects, both in a traditional and agile way.

Highly numerate and analytical. Energetic and resilient.

Ability to manage across multiple workstreams simultaneously, in a dynamic environment.

Capable to understand and translate both the Sales and Mktg KPIs

CCD (Customer Category Development) experience strongly preferred.

Good business partner across all functional areas.

Bachelor degree required along with 3+ years’ work experience.