Senior Category Manager

Tasks and role overview:
As Senior Category Manager for Consumables & Accessories for Dish Care, Fabric Care, and SDA products, you will:
Be part of a completely new global category management set-up and play a crucial role in creating new processes and ways of working to bring consumables & accessories from product idea to market introduction.
Operate within a network of a diverse set of professionals from all functions (R&D, design, marketing, legal, sales organizations etc.) and play a crucial role in establishing a new category in the organization & aligning senior stakeholder groups onto your path.
Develop product, business, and marketing strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Deliver global C&A Care platforms, building strong networks with stakeholders to ensure technical and commercial feasibility as well as best-in-class launch execution.
Analyze market, consumer, professional, and competitive data, translating them into winning portfolio strategies and product solutions.
Create & align budgets for the category, PMO, R&D, and content creation, achieving stakeholder alignment and ensuring delivery within timelines.
Identify opportunities for complexity reduction and cost-out, initiating actions to reduce SKUs and product cost-out investigations.
Review financial results and instigate actions for P&L improvements, follow up with the controlling community and sales organizations on action plans.

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Skills and Knowledge:
Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.
Demonstrated experience in category management.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to draw insightful conclusions and make data-driven decisions.
Prior experience in the consumer goods / household appliances industry.
Excellent influencing skills to collaborate effectively across teams.
Experience in the internal sales process of introducing new products to local sales teams in a market.
Project leadership experience, preferably in an international environment.
Basic engineering knowledge and ability to read drawings/3D sketches to communicate with R&D, industrial design, and manufacturing units is a plus.
Fluent proficiency in English.

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Benefits:
Except all benefits available to our employees in your location or our Stockholm office, you will influence a future shape of our brand. Opportunity to drive category growth by 40% until 2025. Chance to participate in implementing global processes, gaining valuable cross-functional collaboration and project management experience. Work with international teams and stakeholders, developing a global perspective and building relationships with professionals from diverse backgrounds.