Associate Category Manager

Are you ready to grasp the unique opportunity to impact the future of  Arla Finland’s key categories? Are you motivated for a challenging role where you combine your category management skills with your commercial mindset to drive growth across the Cheese & BSM categories? Then this exciting position as Junior Category Manager in Arla Finland might be for you!

You will join our Marketing department and be part of the Cheese & BSM category team, whilst having a close link to the brand teams both locally and globally. You will take on a role  on an operational level, from executing the category plans, analyzing category opportunities from a consumer point of view and lead efficiency projects. The role is based in Sipoo and reports to the Category Lead.

About the job

In this role, you will be responsible for executing our category strategies on a daily basis to drive business growth and customer satisfaction. You will contribute to annual business planning and different category development projects as well as working with category brands like Castello.  You will work in close collaboration e.g. with the brand teams locally & globally, KAMs and customer development team to maximize sales, profitability, and customer & consumer satisfaction.

 More concretely, you will:

• Execute different activities defined from the Cheese and BSM category strategies.

• Identify insights to help craft and define concrete plans that deliver a win for customer, shopper and category.

• Act as project manager for selected market roll-out projects for the Arla Cheese and Castello brands in collaboration with Global and local brand teams as well as product management team across the different cheese dairies in Europe.

• Localise and execute the global brand marketing plan locally for category brands like Castello.

• Manage the full portfolio in the designated categories through SKU management process.

• Monitor, analyze and share the performance, innovation activity and insights of our brands and competitor brands in the designated categories.

• Champion the categories within the overall business and our customers.

Who are you?

As an individual, you are driven and analytical and possess the ability to effectively prioritize tasks as well as maintain a commitment to quality and timely delivery in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You are capable of working both independently and as part of a team in a dynamic setting. Your work approach is characterized by being detail-oriented, systematic, and self-directed. You have genuine interest in consumer centricity and driving category growth.

In addition to this our preferred candidate has

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Business Administration or similar.

• 5-6 years of experience in e.g. category management and marketing, preferably in an FMCG setting.

• Strong problem-solving skills and experience in reporting and analyzing data.

• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel for data analysis.

• Good verbal and written communication skills in both Finnish and English.

 What do we offer?

This is a great opportunity to join our ambitious and fun marketing team and help shape the future of dairy at Arla.

We are committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. You will join a market leader who produces nutritious household brands in a way that makes things better for our customers, the farmers and the whole world.

Modern working in hybrid model

The office is considered our primary place of work and should be seen as a natural choice. It is of great value that employees meet at the workplace since it contributes to collaboration, creativity, exchange of knowledge and strengthens and builds new relationships.

Our belief is that the best way of working, for many, is a mix between working from the office and working from home. This increases flexibility, which for many can contribute to further positive effects on the interaction between work and leisure (Work Life Balance).

Application and contact

If you want to seize this exciting opportunity and accelerate your career at Arla, then please apply as soon as possible. We process applications on a continuous basis and close the job opening once the right candidate has been found.

In Arla, we strongly believe our values Lead, Sense and Create that defines us in everything we do and say.  In Arla we believe that diversity and inclusion are imperative to our business. We define diversity broadly as differences between people with a diverse range of backgrounds, while inclusion is about valuing differences among individuals to create synergies. We have an ambition to create an inclusive work environment where everyone is valued and feels that they belong.