Associate Manager - Category Management

PepsiCo

PepsiCo

India · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Posted on Apr 20, 2026
Overview
  • Accelerate PepsiCo business growth by supporting the South Africa Category with category analysis, reporting and category strategy recommendations to drive growth
  • Responsible for delivering periodic and on-demand category performance reviews, and addressing ad-hoc customer requests, based on internal and external data sources
  • Provide analytics to support key strategic customer engagements and to support category assortment and space interventions
Responsibilities
  • Monitor market category, customer and competitor performance across key EMEA markets and execute scorecard reporting for top customers at required intervals and generate scorecards and performance overviews (quarterly/adhoc for key customers) for the categories and customers
  • Leverage multiple data sources (Nielsen/IRI, Household panel data, Customer scan/loyalty data) and market/customer understanding, to support EMEA DX
  • Supports in the creation and driving of winning execution strategies in-store with customers.
  • Identifies sales opportunities and optimization tactics to drive category demand, space and shopper KPIs
  • Analyze and prepare reports on Promotions and NPD performance and benchmarking in external views (Nielsen, dunnhumby etc.) to measure and optimize, to drive category growth
  • Able to collaborate and work with BU teams and external third party agencies to acquire information and resolve any service issues on projects
Qualifications
  • Bachelors' degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering: MBA a plus
  • 5yrs+ insights/ analytics
  • Prior FMCG experience
  • Knowledge of Nielsen, Household Panel
  • Advanced Microsoft Office / PowerPoint & Excel skills
  • Can synthesize multiple disparate data sources into compelling growth strategies/reviews
  • Can easily see how insights and research learnings can improve business and frames up reporting efforts and opportunities to inform business decisions