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    ABInBev

    Beverages

    Global Manager, Category Management

    Zug, SwitzerlandOn-SiteFull-timePosted 3w ago
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    About us

    AB InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top 5 consumer product companies. With over 500 beer brands, we’re number one or two in many of the world’s top beer markets, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

    About this opportunity

    ABI Growth is seeking an experienced Category Management professional with a strong commercial mindset and proven experience leading category initiatives across retailers, customers, or markets. This role will be responsible for leading the execution and deployment of global category management initiatives across markets and key accounts, ensuring consistent implementation of category growth strategies, accelerating adoption of global capabilities, and translating strategic priorities into measurable business impact. The successful candidate will act as the link between global strategy and market execution, partnering with Category, Commercial, Marketing, and Key Account teams across multiple geographies to drive alignment, implementation, accountability, and operational excellence. In this role, you will be working in ABI Growth's global headquarters in Brazil while collaborating closely with teams across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Proficiency in English and Spanish is required.

    What you will do:

    • Lead execution of Global Category management initiatives across key markets and customers.
    • Partner with market teams to translate global priorities into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
    • Coordinate the strategy and deployment of category management tools, frameworks, and capabilities across the organization.
    • Monitor project progress, identify implementation risks, and proactively drive corrective actions.
    • Build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders including Sales, Marketing, Commercial Strategy, and Key Account teams.
    • Consolidate market feedback and identify opportunities to improve execution effectiveness and scalability.
    • Develop executive-ready presentations, business cases, project updates, and deployment plans for senior leadership.
    • Create strategic capability-building initiatives including trainings, workshops, best-practice sharing, and global community engagement.
    • Identify opportunities to improve processes, drive simplification, and increase organizational effectiveness.

    We are looking for people with:

    • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or related field.
    • Strong experience in Category Management, Trade Marketing, Key Account Management, or related functions.
    • Strong understanding of category management principles, shopper-centric approach, and retailer execution.
    • Experience working with large retailers and commercial teams.
    • Proven ability to manage complex projects and deliver results through influence rather than authority.
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate insights into action.
    • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
    • Fluent English and Spanish required.
    • Experience working in global or matrix organizations preferred.
    • Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills.
    • Self-starter with strong ownership, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
    •  Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and highly collaborative environment

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    ABInBev

    Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients. Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois; multi-country brands Beck’s, Castle, Castle Lite, Hoegaarden, and Leffe; and local champions such as Aguila, Bud Light, Jupiler, Klinskoye, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Skol, and Victoria. Our brewing heritage dates back more than 600 years, spanning continents and generations. From our European roots at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium. To the pioneering spirit of the Anheuser & Co brewery in St. Louis, US. To the creation of the Castle Brewery in South Africa during the Johannesburg gold rush. To Bohemia, the first brewery in Brazil. Geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets, we leverage the collective strengths of approximately 200,000 employees based in more than 50 countries worldwide.

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