Category & Customer Developer - Velder in the Netherlands

• A salary between €5400 and €7500 gross per month (based on 40 hours, excluding 8% holiday allowance), depending on knowledge and experience.
• Hybrid working: due to close cooperation with various teams, we strive to be present in the office for at least half of our working time.
• Room to further develop yourself with training, education, and career advancement opportunities.
• 5 weeks of vacation and a social leave day to participate in something good and beautiful in your own way.
• An informal and entrepreneurial working environment with engaged and passionate colleagues.
• Regular fun events and sporting activities.

This is what you will do
The cheese category offers plenty of opportunities to grow further. Developments in consumer behavior, customer needs, sustainability, and market trends continuously create new insights that guide our commercial choices. As Velder-Dupont, we want to make optimal use of these opportunities and use data increasingly better to let our customers and our own organization grow successfully.

You are responsible for developing and implementing commercial, tactical, and strategic category development activities that drive growth for the category, the customer, and Velder-Dupont. You combine market figures, market research, and shopper behavior, translating these insights into concrete advice and growth plans.

• You present insights and growth plans to customers and internal stakeholders and know how to convince them of commercial opportunities within the category.
• You take ownership of category development processes and know how to bring them from analysis to commercial recommendation and implementation.
• You translate customer- and channel-specific data into recommendations and concrete commercial actions regarding assortment, pricing, promotion, and shelf optimization;
• You perform analyses on market, customer, and shopper data (including NielsenIQ, IRI, YouGov, and retailer-specific tools);
• You work independently with available data sources and analyses to make commercial opportunities, customer potential, and growth possibilities transparent;
• You identify trends, growth opportunities, and threats within the cheese category;
• You collaborate intensively with account management and marketing to realize joint growth plans and translate category visions into commercial choices.

You are part of the Sustainability & Category team; the knowledge center for data, insights, sustainability, and category development within Velder.

This is why you want to work as a Category & Customer Developer at Velder

• You are a data-driven category professional with a commercial eye and find it great to translate market, shopper, and customer data into concrete insights and plans. In this way, you contribute to the growth of our customers and Velder-Dupont.
• You get plenty of room to further professionalize category development within Velder-Dupont.
• You work closely to the business, sit at the table for commercial choices, and see the direct impact of your insights on customers, categories, and growth.

A love for cheese and creating moments of happiness forms the heart of Velder. From an autonomous position within Royal FrieslandCampina, we have grown into the leading domestic and international cheese specialist in the Netherlands, with a turnover of €765 million. We are ambitious, consumer- and customer-oriented, and believe in the power of data and collaboration.