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Junior Category Development Manager (m/f/d)

  • Germany
  • Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Nürnberg
  • Hybrid
  • Permanent Full-Time
  • Posted: 13 Aug 2025
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Junior Category Development Manager (m/f/d)

About the job

You love strong brands - we love strong personalities! Become part of Danone and our team with the successful brands Volvic, Aptamil, Activia, Actimel, Alpro and more.

 

  • Understand various factors at play driving category and brand performance within the market and with our retailers by category management approaches, creating innovative sell-in stories and activation plans to drive growth
  • Defining these category, consumer and shopper insights into co-building the category vision for the category to guide all commercial teams in their executional plans, contributing to the overall category vision
  • Develop shopper activation campaigns that are transferring key communication messages to the point of sale to drive consideration and purchase
  • Integrating various data insights to enhance category strategies and align with brand and customer plans, including Category PICOS and instore activation
  • Strong crossfunctional collaboration with Field Force to prioritize and enable execution of instore communication
  • Steer and Manage external agencies to provide best-in-class material to communicate and educate towards shopper
  • Balances external realities with internal objectives and supports cross-functional commercial teams towards commercial execution excellence
  • Development and implementation of category-specific 4P strategies and tactics; Innovation GTM Strategy Crafting; Translation of the brand strategy into strong implementation plans in different sales channels cooperating with Marketing and Key Account
  • Ensure bottom up plans deliver against target, and capture risk and mitigation opportunities to gap close
  • Performance measurement and tracking (Listings, Innovations, Distribution) • Ad Hoc reporting / presentations
  • Budget Management
  • Support on Cross-functional Topics (Product Visuals, Team Meetings Organization, Customer Meetings)
  • Implement Category Growth Drivers relevant to Customer / Channel
  • Drive category partnerships with the strategic customers providing them with actionable category, shopper-and consumer focused insights

About you

  • Relevant Business Degree, with a Sales, Marketing or Business management specialization
  • First experience in Marketing / Sales in FMCG are favourable, ideally in Shopper Marketing or Market Strategy
  • Strong analytical, conceptual and presentation skills
  • Advanced communication skills (written, oral and listening)
  • Highly intrinsic motivated to learn and develop (high flexibility, high motivation, resilience and agility)
  • Entrepreneurial Thinking & Solution-oriented
  • Experienced in MS Office: Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint
  • Fluent in English

The position is vacant as off September 1st in our German based offices in Frankfurt, Munich or Nürnberg. 

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About Danone

OWN your IDEAS

In our culture, respect and team spirit are embedded at all levels: the best idea is not determined by the hierarchical level.

OWN your CAREER

Your career path is not a one-way street. Individual career plans give you freedom and flexibility: We support you - e.g. with our coaching and mentoring offer

OWN your IMPACT

A job means so much more than titles and earning money. With us you have the opportunity to really make a difference and improve the health of people and the planet.

 

Come to Danone and make our team even more colorful and diverse.

We say: bring your very own self into our teams - because we count on the individuality of everyone. #Dan'OwnYourUniqueness

 

YOUR BENEFITS 

  • Modern office with open space
  • Mobile and flexible working
  • Various education opportunities
  • Pension
  • Pick & Choose from the categories Transportation, Health, Lunch, Childcare and more! 

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Job details

Dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we are a leading global food & beverage company built on four businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, Early Life Nutrition and Medical Nutrition. 

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