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Foods Category Operations Manager

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Thailand , Bangkok

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Job Description:

The role is responsible for developing and leading thought leadership and category growth with integration of shopper, customer, and channel insights, and deployment of customer facing category strategies.

Job Responsibility:

  • Drive and deliver yearly business results
  • Lead category strategy development & guideline and Co-developed innovation launch with marketing team since campaign development, financial P&L, channels & activation plan, pack, price, promotion suggestions
  • Provide a detailed analysis of actual sales vs forecast result and propose the rolling channel or action plans to the management
  • Work jointly with marketing team to assess category opportunities and analyze competitor and channel behavior for the annual plan, forecast and identify areas of opportunity
  • Plan, execute and evaluate options jointly with CBD (Key Account Managers and BD) for tailor made activities to enhance retailers' commitment and integrating support plans
  • Communicate to the CBD and retail partner team on any marketing/trade marketing initiatives to ensure smooth operation during implementation
  • Development category specific to each channel and customer, lead the development and execution of category plan, category JBP, D4R and D4C
  • Managing and optimizing category investment, BMI, CCP to achieve turnover with optimal investment

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in job related field
  • Minimum 5 years of trade marketing, category analyst or any related role in FMCG environment experiences will be advantage
  • Strong customer marketing know-how as a base to deliver relevant and important inputs to marketing, CBD (including field force), finance and planning teams
  • Able to synthesize various data inputs to shape strategy and executable actions
  • Advance working knowledge of data visualization and report software (Tableau, PowerBI, Nielsen Retail Index) and Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Excellent in English and Thai
  • Good in presentation, alignment and negotiation

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 13, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
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