Commercial Category Lead

Kraft Heinz owns more than sixty of the world's favorite food and beverage brands, yet are still most well-known for their Heinz brand. It is one of their most important brands and a strategic focus in the coming year. The market is complex and innovative and has become more competitive with rising prices due to inflation and an increase in private label brands. Kraft Heinz's mission is to remain the world's preferred sauces brand, and the Commercial Category Lead will be the driving force behind its transformational growth. The Commercial Category Lead will take ownership of their deliverables and responsibility for the complete sauce category's performance. They follow market trends and developments, and build expert knowledge about their category, its challenges, and competitors. Applying a commercial mindset, this role proactively responds to growth opportunities with concrete actions that deliver results. The Lead will connect the right plans to the right stakeholders, and strategically manage multiple priorities and parties to achieve ambitious targets. They will manage the category team consisting of three trade category managers and one category controller, and work side-by-side with a commercial team, ensuring alignment with marketing, sales, demand planning, and finance. Together with the category and commercial teams, they will use a consumer-centric mindset to identify profitable ways to expand the category's market share. Reporting to the Commercial Category Director, Fe Gunning, they are the bridge between their Category and the Leadership teams. To achieve this, they will prepare and present insights, plans, and strategies to be used in making business decisions. An analytical data guru, the Commercial Category Lead will utilize strategic insights to develop and implement strategies for the sauces category, make decisions about which products should be sold in which stores, and determine the pricing. Constantly maintaining overviews of all sauce related data, they will track performance, meticulously analyze all category details, and adjust plans to drive growth and meet KPIs. An excellent multi-tasker and people manager, the Commercial Category Lead is collaborative and can simplify complex tasks and messages. They are a dedicated team leader, with a strong commercial understanding of market dynamics as well as the ability to inspire and empower a team to translate strategy into tangible results.

Kraft Heinz offers a lively, creative and inclusive work environment with a diverse international team who are passionate about food. This role is an exciting opportunity for an energetic and entrepreneurial leader with a consulting background to make a lasting impact at one of the largest companies in the world. As the company continues to grow and innovate, it also offers ambitious individuals with professional growth opportunities within the organization.