Category Manager - Wine, Spirits & Soft Drinks

Description

Job Summary: We are seeking a Category Manager to ensure a structured and profitable product offering, defining strategies and monitoring KPIs to optimize beverage categories. Key Highlights: 1. Commitment to equality and diversity. 2. An environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. 3. An opportunity to build a better life and care for the planet. Join this team with the purpose of Feeding a Better Life and Caring for the Planet. Every day, we build together, with great ambition: to be the preferred brand of our customers, partners, citizens, shareholders, and especially our employees — who sit at the heart of everything we do. That is why we commit to Respect for All, through relationships sustained by openness and proximity. Here, everyone counts. Discover everything we have to offer and join this company of the future! **Your Mission:** * Ensure a structured, consumer-relevant, and organizationally profitable product offering (including permanent, promotional, and seasonal items), meeting category objectives (wines, spirits, soft drinks, and waters) under your responsibility, while ensuring consistency in product range and positioning across all points of sale; * Ensure definition and implementation of category-specific business strategies, based on consumer purchasing behavior, market dynamics, and internal management goals and indicators; * Define assortment, product ranges, and product briefings aligned with strategy and the role of each category; * Guarantee implementation of merchandising policies to optimize and maximize profitability of linear space allocated to each category; * Monitor critical KPIs related to business management and drive corrective action plans whenever necessary; * Track sales trends across points of sale and participate in internal projects to identify customer needs. **What We Expect From You:** * Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in a field relevant to this role; * Proven experience and affinity as a Category Manager in Beverage business management (Off-Trade channel), with particular interest in Wine and Spirits categories; * Strong Customer-Centric orientation; * Communication, negotiation, and interpersonal relationship skills; * Planning, organizational, and prioritization abilities; * Professional maturity, including competence in making difficult decisions with rigor and empathy; * Strategic and business-oriented mindset, with a pragmatic, solution-focused approach; * Analytical capability and critical thinking; * Proficiency in IT tools and English language. **What We Offer You:** * Merit-based salary policy; * Health insurance extendable to family members; * 22 + 3 vacation days; * Employee discount; * Annual bonus; * Employee shareholder program; * A close-knit and informal environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. ***Commitment to Equality and Diversity*** *At Auchan Retail Portugal, we promote responsible employability through an HR policy grounded in respect for human rights and equal opportunities, regardless of gender, race, color or ethnic or social origin, genetic or physical characteristics, language, religion, or beliefs.*