Regional Category Planner

Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse
network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500
outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their
recent combination with travel F&B giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realize their ambition to create a
Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway
stations amongst others.

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.

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.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including operations, logistics, and procurement to ensure category performance aligns with company goals.

Assortment  - Management & Delisting

• Maintain assortment by door and address possible gaps
• Perform listings of extensions and delisting's 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/PLV 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.

Key Relationships

• Master Data Regional & Global Teams
• Supply Chain & Logistics
• Vendors
• Operations