Category Specialist

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• Global, market leading coffee and tea business with an outstanding culture
• Opportunity to develop your skills - combine your marketing & analytical skills
• As much great tea and coffee as you can consume at work!

Are you passionate about coffee and tea? We are a global company responsible for local and international brands such as Moccona, L’OR, Jeds, Hummingbird, Gravity, Bell Tea, Ti Ora. Due to growth and increasing credibility of our customer and category insights as integral to our business strategy, we have created an exciting opportunity for a Category Specialist. Join us to share in our belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea!

Based in our newly refurbished Auckland Head Office in East Tamaki, you will be an important member of the Category Team, providing support to the business through on time every day better information. 

Reporting to the Coffee Category Manger, with a dominant focus on the Coffee category, you will work collaboratively with members of the Sales and Marketing teams to analyse and optimise market performance.  This will involve assisting in identifying customer, brand and shopper insights using both scan/shopper data and shopper research.  The role will also involve ongoing support in shelf management, Coffee NPD projects, pricing & promotional analysis & category reviews.

In order to be successful, you will have demonstrated the following: 

• 1-2 years’ experience in a category, marketing or sales role within FMCG
• A degree in Marketing, Business, Commerce or relevant field
• An inquisitive nature with a love of facts and figures 
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong MS Office skills (particularly in Excel and PowerPoint) 
• Ability to organise and prioritise according to business criticality
• Outstanding communication skills including presentation skills and ability to influence 
• Understanding of and a desire to build a career in FMCG 

What we can offer: 

• An engaging, friendly, collaborative team ready to help you learn
• Intensive induction, training and on-going support to set you up for success 
• The opportunity to work alongside some of NZ’s leading coffee and tea brands
• Globally successful organisation with long history that we are proud of and a future we’re excited to be creating 

At JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS NZ we can offer you the opportunity to join a highly successful global, yet local, coffee company at an exciting time of development and growth.  We have a strong focus on developing our team members through a series of on the job challenges, coaching and training as well as exposure to sophisticated technology and information.  This career development position offers an appealing remuneration package, including a suite of health and wellbeing benefits.   We are proud of our collaborative company culture and operate with a team of dedicated professional individuals who share the company strategy and vision.  

If you fit the above description apply online today, or contact Ali Barfoot, Recruitment Specialist if you have any questions. To learn more about what it’s like to work within JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS please click here: https://www.jacobsdouweegberts.com/careers/The-Associate-Experience/ or check us out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDCEpVtyAAOVrSZ-iYvkOdA