SVP, Category & Insights

The Senior Vice President of Category & Insights is responsible for leading the development of Red Bull’s category management and customer and business insights strategies to ensure that Red Bull is seen as the thought leader both externally, in pursuit of selling opportunities with our retail partners, and internally throughout the business planning process with our category and account management teams. The end goal is to provide our employees and customers with cutting-edge analysis, research, reporting, tools and insights that lead to best-in-class promotion, distribution, and merchandising.

The SVP of Category will lead the following teams: Shopper & Category Insights, Space Planning & Assortment, and Category Management for National Accounts and Regional Accounts across all channels of business. An excellent grasp of the tools necessary for field sales to be successful; an intuitive knowledge of the key metrics required to properly analyze business performance; both customer and HQ experience and a proven track record of leadership and team building is required.

Externally, we strive to be the only reasonable choice when retailers decide on a thought partner across Total Non-Alcoholic Beverages and within Energy Drinks. Internally, we have our fingerprints on all phases on the Red Bull selling process: from insight-led sales priorities, channel playbooks for business plan implementation, collaborative CMA selling stories and management of systems to measure success and inform new opportunities.

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

• Develop long-term category strategies and specific initiatives considering company direction, focus area, key customers, market parameters and resources

  Aggregate and analyze large amounts of complex data quickly, and distill that data into clear, viable action plans

  Allocate resources where the investment has the highest payback and with regions or customers with strategic importance/relevance

  Drive the insights for the annual business planning process for sales team, channel programs, and initiatives

• Red Bull will need to maintain its leadership status in the industry as we compete with resource-rich beverage leaders. Utilize current insights resources to anticipate business needs and uncover sales opportunities, guide the annual business planning process, and provide leading-edge Category Management solutions across all channels of trade

  Build strong external relationships with key retailer Executives, especially where Red Bull holds Captaincy

  Mine internal and external data to analyze the category, Brand, and consumer/shopper dynamics to maximize sales effectiveness in Distribution, Pricing, Promotion, and Merchandising

  Identifies opportunity gaps and provides strategies to close gaps

  Foster strong internal partnerships with cross-functional team leadership (Shopper Insights, Shopper Marketing, Data Science) to inform and create effective retailer Category solutions

• Provide timely thought leadership to sales leaders and retailer decision makers from space, shopper, and category insights

  Be sought after and trusted by retailer partners in key decision moments

  Negotiate retailer-specific data platform offerings and ensure these tools are leveraged for category and brand growth

  Leverage multiple data sources to present compelling insights that drive annual selling strategies and go-to-market initiatives internally and in top-to-top retailer meetings.

  Drive Red Bull space planning methodology and process proposed to key retailers to win captaincy designation.

  Partner with sales teams to identify, prioritize, and plan the retailers best suited for Red Bull category captaincy.

  Ensure the team leverages the latest shopper and category insights to develop annual planogram standards, consults product marketing on advanced assortment analytics, and informs Global category space planning training efforts. Develop and train Red Bull Global category space planning modules for international market use

• Oversee the management of the current category and shopper insights content suite across all insight sources with a continuous improvement mindset for content and delivery.

  Provide direction on our relationship with the dedicated IRI team and Numerator dedicated partners, ensuring seamless monthly delivery of accurate data and efficient use of resources

  Ensure that our approach to database design across all data sources is evolving with beverage, shopper, and retail trends

  Works with industry thought leaders (Kantar Retail, Mintel, Euromonitor, etc) to inform and influence their research and direction on the energy and other beverage categories

  Evaluate team decisions to acquire and manage tactical vendors: planogram software and efficiency tools, product libraries, and planogram services, including but not limited to: JDA/Blue Yonder, SMSB, and others.

EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

• 12+ Years work experience in CPG/FMCG, Beverage industry Category Management preferred
• 4+ years of experience in Sales/Category Management, preferably within CPG/Beverage
• 4+ years of experience in Shopper Insights, preferably within CPG/Beverage
• Experience in Space Planning and Category Assortment, preferable within CPG/Beverage
• Broad knowledge of CPG industry sources and uses, vendors and their tools and capabilities including, but not limited to: Syndicated sales data (Circana, Nielsen etc.), shopper panel data (Numerator, etc.), loyalty card, custom research (Field Agent, etc)
• Ability to connect disparate data sources, interpret analysis results, formulate recommendations, develop impactful presentations, and present to broad audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven track record of turning insights into actionable selling tactics
• Experience in people management and people development
• Strong customer-service aptitude

• Travel 30-40%
• Permanent
• Benefits eligible