Category Manager - Alcohol Ready to Drink

Job DescriptionAre you looking for new challenges within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?Will you make an impact with your desire to win?Category Manager - Alcohol Ready to DrinkLocation - UxbridgeContract - PermanentExpectation:This role is key to the delivery of ambitious growth plans in 2025 and beyond. The successful candidate will have the energy and ambition to make a significant contribution to the future success of the ARTD BU. This person will haveProven track record working as an effective Category manager with Grocery or AFH customersPrevious experience working with Nielsen and Kantar dataCan use data to tell a clear, compelling category story with call to actions based on the insightAbility to partner well cross functionally, with the likes of insights, commercial, shopper and RGM.Ability to build and sustain influential customer relationshipsAbility to show thought leadership in developing category growth strategiesRole scope:We need this person toTo bring our category vision to life with our biggest strategic customers across GBTo remain linked in as part of the GB category team community, sharing and contributing learnings best practice etc.Involved in company annual business planning and long range planning cyclesAdvise retailers through key decision making periods, effectively influencing range, space and distribution decisions.Identifying gaps and opportunities for growth and developing compelling sell-in storiesSupport the development of consumer/ shipper and category centric NPDTo be the voice of the shopper both internally and externallyDemonstrate they can work under pressure whilst being highly organised and efficientBe able to manage short term deliverables in parallel to developing long term strategic plansBe curious, eager to learn, have a can do and forward thinking attitudeKey deliverables:Support building out the opportunity for ARTD for tenders and renegsReview SOVI/ SOCVI pre and post range reviewsLand aisle of the future principles and how they will drive growth for the categoryCreate videos across AFH & grocery to demonstrate merchandising LOSBuild shelf range review recommendationsWe are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the worlds most loved drinks.We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise weve got some way to go, but well get there with the support of our people. Its them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what its like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here tospeak to an insiderWe recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If thats true for you please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.

Created: 2025-10-13