Position title: Associate Manager, Category Analytics & Insights

Location: Birmingham area (Lichfield), or Bristol, or Manchester area (Cheadle), or London (Hammersmith)

Reports to: Sr. Category Manager, Marketing

Contract type: fixed-term (9 months) , full-time, hybrid working system

Your Role & Team in a Nutshell

As an Associate Manager for Category Analytics & Insights, your role is to help our Learning & Development segment grow through analysing data, identifying insights, preparing reports, and making recommendations to leaders.

You will work with brands like Parker, Sharpie, PaperMate, DYMO, NUK, Baby Jogger and others.

You’ll regularly collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain, applying Shopper Insights to drive data-informed decisions.

We will help you achieve your goals and develop by providing regular feedback and access to online training courses.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Regional Marketing to craft annual brand plans, ensuring cross-functional coherence.

• Partner with brand marketing to adapt pricing and promotional policies into practical guidelines, obtaining consensus from essential business stakeholders.

• Direct the commercial approach for new products, conducting market evaluations, trade impact forecasts, and establishing pricing and promotion boundaries.

• Engage with sales and channel marketing teams to gather regional insights, feeding into the global innovation strategy for effective product introductions.

• Data Analysis: Utilize data sources like IRI, Nielsen, or Kantar to conduct deep-dive analytics, offering strategic recommendations through category management.

• Trend Monitoring: Stay updated on category shifts and market movements, translating insights into strategic actions for the business.

• Conduct new product launch assessments, providing critical feedback to refine business focus and enhance market positioning.

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What You’ll Need

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably with a focus on business/marketing or a related field

• Demonstrated experience in an international Consumer Goods company, with roles in any of the following areas: Category Management, Shopper Insights, Strategy, Marketing, Sales, or similar positions

• Experience with business intelligence tools (Power BI or Tableau), and proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.

• Familiarity with syndicated data and software (Nielsen/IRI, GFK, Consumer Panel etc.)

• Willingness to travel 10-20% of the time.

Your advantage:

• Data-driven mindset with strong problem-solving skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to build sustainable relationships across all organizational levels, and adept at presenting complex issues clearly

• Ability to perform detailed analysis, provide insights, and make recommendations based on a variety of business issues within the category

• Strategic thinker and self-starter, capable of managing multiple cross-functional projects

What You Gain

Newell Brands has a strong footprint in the EMEA region, with several thousand employees spread over many corporate offices and manufacturing facilities. You might recognise some of our iconic brands, like Parker, Sistema, Spontex, Crockpot, NUK, Coleman, and Yankee Candle, to name a few.

Join us and benefit from:

• Flexible hybrid working system (on average 3 days in the office and 2 days at home p.w.)

• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning – 17,000+ courses for your professional and personal development

• Corporate Citizenship Philosophies – environmentally sustainable and socially sensitive business practices

• Discounts on some of our products from brands Parker, DYMO, Sharpie, Contigo, and others

• Employee Referral Program – an opportunity to get a bonus

• Global Service Anniversary Program – recognition of milestone service anniversaries and birthdays

• Give@Newell – paid time-off for charity activities dedicated for local communities right where you live/work

• Access to Employee Resource Groups that foster Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

• Core Values: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, Leadership

Are you interested?

If so, please click on “Apply Online” on this site and upload your CV.

If your application is shortlisted, our recruiter will invite you for an initial phone interview.

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