Consultant

Position Title

Assistant Manager, Category Management

Function/Group

Sales Strategy & Intelligence

Location

India

Shift Timing

11am to 8pm

Role Reports to

Manager

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make foodthe world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Hagen-Dazs, we've been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

GIC Sales Strategy & Intelligence team partners with our global General Mills sales teams in providing them with analytical horsepower and enable business continuity so they can focus on core activities - Selling, driving distribution gains and optimizing merchandising plans to deliver sales volume targets. We enable customer, pricing & promotion strategies across the global markets through our focused capabilities of Sales Execution, Trade & Strategic Revenue Management and Category Management. Teams within function are aligned to the above focused capabilities for each of our markets and each team member specializes in domains of Advanced Analytics, Visual Insights & Planogramming.

We are a family of Data analysts, Business analysts and Business Consultants with diverse opinions, cultures and passions and are united by our desire to serve the world by making food people love. We apply the principles of analytics to everything we do, constantly experimenting to discover new ways to add value to our stakeholders, customers and team members.

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Purpose of the role

The role will be responsible to work on and manage a team purposed to partner with the Category Management teams in US markets. The team member will build a seamless rapport with the point of contact overseas, address and initiate business requests, establish solutions through sophisticated reporting/ tool building, superior presentations/visuals; the work completed will be sent with an actionable analysis that showcases depth & breadth of business acumen to enable growth of our distribution goals for the products & categories.

The role will also lead the team supporting Planogram capabilities for Captaincy categories and should act as a Subject Matter Expert on shelf layout and design principles and has good experience on softwares like JDA, Apollo & Shelf IQ.

The AM must have a strong grasp of alternatives and use thought leadership to make calculated decisions to influence how projects & capabilities shape up - this includes leveraging well-conceived proof of concepts, drive standardization & excellent Stakeholder Management.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Advance Capabilities (30% of the time)

• Accelerate engagement with Omni Category Management teams by displaying strong stakeholder management skills
• Marketing & cross selling capabilities at organizational forums
• Build new capabilities & reporting solutions leveraging Syndicated data sources like Nielsen, IRI & customer POS data
• Advance Planogram capabilities through automation & efficiency for driving scale within the team
• Become an SME and partner with other experts to eliminate market knowledge gaps & drive success through collaboration.

Operational & Executional Excellence (40% of the time)

• Align with Senior Leadership and team's vision to effectively manage the annual performance cycle & employee careers within team
• Adept at resource allocation, utilization & capacity management
• Maintain highest level of timeliness and accuracy in all service delivery
• Effective stakeholder management to deliver high level of customer satisfaction
• Building effective process planning & tracking mechanisms
• Enable standardization across different processes/markets within and across verticals
• Contribute towards increasing the process/capability maturity
• 100% compliance to Business Continuity Plan (BCP) & Crisis Management readiness

Inculcate Continuous Improvement Mindset (30% of the time)

• Collaborate across boundaries in real time to learn and implement best-in-class techniques, pre-existing solutions, tools, platforms etc.
• Maintain a lens of continuous improvement for the projects, process & larger team - cross functional lens and overseas partnership included
• Design trainings based on needs of the team around key concepts, skills and applications and drive execution
• Develop SMEs within the team (including self) and secure cost savings by driving process transformation
• Participate actively in organizational initiatives and represent the function
• Collaborate across the organization to identify synergies, drive standardization & create HMM

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education - Full time graduation from an accredited university
• Minimum Degree Requirements: Bachelors
• Minimum years of related experience required: 4 - 6 years of Reporting, Analytics & Planogram experience in Category Management within CPG industry with People and Career Management experience, minimum 1 yr. of direct people management (team size 3-5)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Preferred Degree Requirements: Masters
• Preferred Major Area of Study: Business Management, Marketing, Retail
• Preferred years of related experience: 5 - 8 years of Reporting, Analytics & Planogram experience in Category Management within CPG industry with People and Career Management experience, 3 yrs of direct people management