CDM WM Advisor, VMS

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Sales

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online. Within Sales, we're focused on achieving outperformance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success. We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

About the role

As a Category Manager Walmart Advisor, you will report to the Team Lead Walmart Advisorship and will be part of a high performing team with a proven track record of success in partnering for excellence. People are our competitive advantage, and you will be empowered to be an indispensable partner to Walmart by acting in a consultative capacity, providing strategic data-driven guidance and leadership to fuel Walmart’s category growth.

The ideal candidate will operate with integrity, develop collaborative relationships, and have Walmart Advisory experience of at least two years.  You will be a category expert in the assigned category and a key team member that will work closely with the Walmart Merchant Team as well as the internal Advisorship team. We thrive on collaboration and are supportive of each other to learn and grow and we provide you amazing tools to elevate insights and fuel your curiosity.

If you are fueled by intellectual curiosity, enjoy learning new tools and being part of an exciting forward-thinking team – this is the role for you!

Your responsibilities

· Unbiased thought leadership and go to resource for category insights and analytics.

· Synthesize actionable insights leveraging multiple data sources and tools to generate specific recommendations to drive category growth.

· Develop in-depth analysis utilizing storytelling skills to build a strategic Omni Channel vision with a customized plan to support the retailer’s category strategy.

· Partner cross functionally with the Advisorship team to implement Walmart’s merchandising vision, modular process and deliver comprehensive KPI reporting.

· Proactively identify marketplace opportunities that lead to category growth.

· Be a self-directed expert that develops and drives initiatives with the support of shopper insights and implements own initiatives from concept to in-store execution

The experience we're looking for

The skills for success

Consumer Insights; Shopper Insights; Customer Insights; Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing, Consultative Selling, Customer strategy; Channel strategy, Sales strategy development, Perform product plannnig, Business accumen; financial accumen, commercial accumen, Sales negotiation, P&L Management, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence, Key Account Management, Account Management, Field sales; Field sales management, Ecommerce, Analysing sales and Ecommerce data, Pharmaceutical Sales, Trade Marketing, Digital activation to HCPs, Leadership skills.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

US salary ranges

USD $143,000.00 -  $215,000.00

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.