Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you! Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect? Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing? Will you make an impact with your desire to win?   Category Manager Permanent  Location: Uxbridge   Expectation: This role is key to the delivery of ambitious growth plans in 2025 and beyond. The successful candidate will have the energy and ambition to make a significant contribution to the future success of CCEP. This person will have… Proven track record working as an effective Category manager with Grocery or AFH customers Previous experience working with Nielsen and Kantar data Can use data to tell a clear, compelling category story with call to actions based on the insight Ability to partner well cross functionally, with the likes of insights, commercial, shopper and RGM. Ability to build and sustain influential customer relationships Ability to show thought leadership in developing category growth strategies Role scope: We need this person to… To bring our category vision to life with our biggest strategic customers across GB To remain linked in as part of the GB category team community, sharing and contributing learnings best practice etc. Involved in company annual business planning and long range planning cycles Advise retailers through key decision making periods, effectively influencing range, space and distribution decisions. Identifying gaps and opportunities for growth and developing compelling sell-in stories Support the development of consumer/ shipper and category centric NPD To be the voice of the shopper both internally and externally Demonstrate they can work under pressure whilst being highly organised and efficient Be able to manage short term deliverables in parallel to developing long term strategic plans Be curious, eager to learn, have a “can do” and forward thinking attitude Key deliverables: Review SOVI/ SOCVI pre and post range reviews and future growth opportunities Land aisle of the future principles and how they will drive growth for the category Create videos across AFH&grocery to demonstrate merchandising LOS Build shelf range review recommendations Alcohol category experience would be preferable  We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks. We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We helpour 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day. From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcomepeople from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak toone of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to  We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this roleincludes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.