Shopper Insights Lead - Germiston, South Africa - PepsiCo

PepsiCo

Verified Company

Germiston, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Overview:

About PepsiCo

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.

PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream.

PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Responsibilities:

What we're looking for:

Build and drive ubiquitous availability in Modern Trade and Traditional Trade
To cocreate and execute customer centric solutions for the MT and TT channels and customers which will enable growth acceleration for PepsiCo, winning versus completion and be seen as a trusted advisor by customers as per Advantage Monitor (TAG) priorities.
To create and enable implementation of toolkits for key strategic priorities, namely Category Visions, EDGE shopper principles, Category Development Fund (CDF), Po1 & Ubiquitous Availability in TT and digitization & automation.
Overall, the role will enable the elevation of standards from 'foundational' to 'good' and ultimately to 'bestinclass'.

Thought Leadership (internal & external)

Build category growth plans to enable Sales team to sell PepsiCo ideas to customers that will drive joint growth for PepsiCo and customers
Analyse multiple data sets to provide category insight on drivers of performance of both the overall category and top MT customers, providing benchmarking, strategies and potential tactics to capitalise on mutually beneficial growth opportunities.
Create customer centric category visions leveraging the DX operating model (Identify, Engage, Convert, Optimize) to gain alignment and support from stakeholders, both internally and externally to enable Category Thought Leadership and longterm partnership
Support customers on long term strategy reviews with endtoend connected plans that incorporate shopper insights, category management and shopper marketing suite

Shopper Drivers Insight

Lead detailed shopper PDT researches which builds a holistic understanding that enables shopper merchandising strategy
Develop shopper and customer driven channel taxanomy, definitions, features and prioritization
Developed shopper led clusters utilizing multiple shopper and category data sources
Develop shopper profiles for all key categories

Category Drivers Analytics

Lead detailed analysis of category drivers (share of voice, distribution, share of display, price & promo) which builds a holistic understanding of performance drivers
Provide category assortment analytics and insights to highlight Most Valuable SKUs, Core SKUs, Niche SKUs and Least Valuable SKUs that drive actions with retailers which will w pack type / size introduction, delist and price increase/decrease opportunities which will maximize the market share, revenue and volume.
Work closely with RM Strategy team with regular price range analysis, define hot price points, monitor category / brand performances within price ranges, highlight bestselling SKUs for each range and identify opportunity areas to gain competitive advantage in market.

Pricing & Promo Insights

Develop insights on pricing and promo impact of shoppers, customers, category etc.
Partner with NRM to implementation of key SA NRM Insight projects (price tiering, etc)
Support development of category, customer & shopper story for price strategy
Identify opportunities for PEP and shopper/customer and influence for actions to be taken
Linking pricing strategy & price tier management with Occasions, Channels, Shopping Mission/Region.
Provide customer and channel insights to highlight new pack type / size introduction, delist and price increase/decrease opportunities which will maximize the market share, revenue and volume.
Work closely with NRM Strategy team with regular price range analysis, define hot price points, monitor category / brand performances within price ranges, highlight bestselling SKUs for each range and identify opportunity areas to gain competitive advantage in market.
Partner with NRM Director and NRM team to develop strategies and play a crucial role to ensure their implementation and tracking
Represent Shopper Insight team (on behalf of DX) in quarterly NRM councils
Deliver share of voice analytics. Ensure ongoing integration of results with revenue management team to enable factbased decisions on pricing strategy and potential pricing actions.
Build outside in perspective, via understanding external factors and category / competitor promo analysis

Qualifications:

What will qualify you for the role:
Tertiary Qualification in a Commercial, Business or Statistical field coupled with previous exposure to FMCG environme