Category Executive, Analysis and Support

About us

At Accolade Wines, our purpose is to enrich everyday moments. As one of the world’s leading wine companies our award-winning portfolio includes beloved brands such as Hardys, Grant Burge, St Hallett, Mud House, Jam Shed and many more. Having recently been voted  Employer of Choice 2024, we are excited to continue our journey as one of the top wine companies in the world for market share.

From grape to glass, from Insight to Action, we put the consumer and shopper at the heart of everything we do. We drive long-term thinking to create a sustainable future for the wine category and our business.

About the role

Are you ready to turn your data and insights skills into a driving force and support our category vision? We are recruiting a Category Executive, Analysis and Support, to join our friendly and dynamic team. Reporting to the Category Manager, you’ll partner with focus customers in your channel to deliver our category vision, building on our already strong category leadership position. You’ll collaborate with Trade Marketing, Brand Marketing, and Sales colleagues to identify and communicate category risks and growth opportunities. By bringing the voice of the consumer and shopper to every project and conversation, you’ll help shape the future of our business with innovative strategies and world-class approach to Category Management.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the design and delivery of a short to medium term category activation plan within designated customers on our focus categories across range, merchandising and promotions.
• Learning to utilise the full suite of insight sources to identify the key drivers of category performance and highlight the risks and opportunities to our priority customers.
• Supporting the creation and delivery of the organisation's category vision.
• Working with the Brand, Insight and Sales teams to create compelling category selling stories.
• Learning to develop relationships on a day-to-day basis and support the Senior Category Manager in managing the needs and expectations of immediate internal and external customers. 
• Influencing both internal and external stakeholders through insight.
• Helping to develop critical category business questions with the customer to stimulate relevant research.
• You may also be involved with projects, creating new suites of insight led reports to be used internally and externally, and developing deep understanding of the needs of our customers at a strategic level, building this into short to medium term strategies.

What you'll bring:

• Experience working within sales, category development, or an insights team along with 2 years of experience in data analysis (desirable if gained within an FMCG environment).
• Strong planning and organisational skills with proven experience in developing and maintaining reports, spreadsheets and presentations.
• Project management experience would be beneficial such as creating clear project briefs and managing agencies to deliver specified outcome.
• Competent IT and digital skills (Microsoft Office plus other agency or retailer specific software e.g. planogram, Circana, Nielsen).
• Strong communication and influencing skills with demonstrated ability to present effectively to a variety of stakeholders.
• A collaborative approach to achieving shared goals with cross functional teams.
• Commercial acumen with ability to understand the impact of actions on revenue and profit.
• A natural problem solver with openness to new ideas and other perspectives.
• A proactive, self-motivated and agile mindset.
• Ability to work effectively and maintain resilience in a fast-paced challenging environment
• Prepared to travel within Australia. 

What you can Expect:

Accolade Wines will provide the ideal climate and a hand-picked rewards package for you to make a difference in our successful and growing business. 
 
You will also have access to: 

• A staff wine allowance and access to unique wine specials 
• We embrace flexible working with up to 2 days WFH
• Start your weekend early with our Fast Friday finishes! 
• Work in our stylish, centrally located Sydney CBD office
• Earn bonus leave for your loyalty, plus celebrate your Accolade Anniversary with a day off
• Volunteer on our Go Beyond Day to make a difference
• Access to an extensive online learning library 
• Paid Parental Leave
• Private Health Insurance Discounts & Annual Flu Vaccination Program
• Plus Employee Assistance Program + other exclusive employee discounts

 
Want to find out more? Watch us in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRtn17Hgz8M

Sound like your kind of drop? Apply now. 

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