Category Manager Jobs

About Us

Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling!

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada's premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love.

We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Life™, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq's®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.

About This Opportunity

Identify, articulate, and commercialize key category growth ideas and opportunities to maximize our retailers’ category growth potential while creating value for The Coca-Cola Bottling Limited and it’s business partners. Be the industry, channel & category subject matter expert to facilitate retailers’ choice to select Coca-Cola as their key strategic partner.

Responsibilities

• Ensure best and current customer-oriented thinking is utilized.
• Lead fact-based category interactions with account and customer team to address key business questions and build strategies and tactics designed for future category growth.
• Cultivate relationships within retailer’s merchandising team and throughout the broader organization.
• Deliver impartial and objective total store and beverage solutions for the retailer by providing differentiated, timely, relevant, and actionable insights.
• Provide business situation assessment and support joint business plan development with key stakeholders.
• Support the creation of shopper insights enhancing both Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited and the retailer’s understanding of the consumer.
• Develop and inspire a cross functional team towards building effective category growth recommendations focused on the customer’s needs and strategic priorities.
• Working collaboratively with the retailer, deliver a space strategy plans that enables category growth while maintaining fundamental space principles and aligns to the channel/brand standards of Coca-Cola Bottling Limited and it’s partner.

Qualifications

• Excellent presentation skills.
• Strong negotiation and influencing abilities.
• Proven experience delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong business acumen.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, or a related field and/or equivalent work experience
• 3+ Years in CPG Industry.
• Capability to combine qualitative and qualitative elements into a single story.
• Ability to multi-task cross functional workstreams, while managing high attention to detail.

For more information about Coke Canada Bottling, please visit cokecanada.com