Americas Category Planner - Beauty

Location: United States

Category: Procurement

Job Type:

Avolta, our brand-new company name, signifies the combination of Dufry, a leading global travel retail duty-free business, HMS Host, and Autogrill, a leading food and beverage provider for travelers. With more than 60 years of experience in the industry, we operate in more than 75 countries and 1,200 locations across three segments – duty-free, travel convenience and essentials, food and beverage – and a wide range of channels – from airports and motorways, through to cruises, railways and more. Geographic diversification is a key element of the company’s strategy. Furthermore, we stand for good corporate governance, openness, and transparency for the benefit of shareholders, customers, business partners, and employees. Avolta is committed to and focused on four key areas where we want to have a positive impact: customer experience, employee well-being and advancement, and protecting the environment. This makes us a trusted partner for all our stakeholders and all our 65’000 employees.

Purpose

The Regional Planner is responsible for supporting on the assortment management, and ensuring the successful implementation of the regionally agreed promotions in the designated countries.

Key Accountabilities

Strategy

Maintain and manage the assortment, as well as the creation and activation of promotions at the country level, while providing support to the Regional Category Managers in the Americas. This role facilitates an efficient go-to-market execution.

Main Roles

Assortment - Novelties

•Perform listings of novelties in the Assortment Management Tool following innovation program agreed for the region

•Ensure implementation of the innovation program – follow up on orders, parameters set up, and keeping locations informed about upcoming updates and introductions.

Assortment - Management & Delisting

•Maintain assortment reports by door and address possible gaps

•Perform listings of extensions and delistings of items in the Assortment Management Tool.

•Address creation, extension and adjustments of new and existing vendors in Avolta’s database

•Review monhtly report on assortment performance by vendor, brand and sku

•Solve assortment discrepancies, duplicities and address issues to Master Data.

•Creation of testers/tastings and urgent incidents management

Promotions

•Create promotions and animations for global and regional brands in the A&P Tool

•Follow up promotions and animations implementation

•Coordination of staff and sales incentives

•Implementation of tactical liquidations/ seasonal campaigns

Follow-up and Governance

§Accountable for reporting – assortment and promotions KPIs to internal stakeholders

§Interact with countries to advise on brands roll out; listings and delistings and promotional activity

§Adhoc participate to business update calls and marketing calendar discussions within the category and vendors

Management, Leadership and HR

§Manage and interact with countries to support the categories assortment modifications, launches and promotional activity go to market.

Experience Required

Essential: 3 years experience in marketing/category management and/or experience with fast moving consumer goods (FMCG).

Desirable: Experience with Travel Retail.

Specific Requirements

§Good communication and organization skills

§Analytical Problem Solving

§Managing complexity

§Capacity to react and adapt to a fast changing environment

§Fluent in English and Spanish (Portuguese a plus)

§Fluent in Excel and Data management