Prof, Category Planning - GDE (6 Months Secondment)

Make an impact in ways that matter. 
Join a business built on trusted brands, great people and teamwork, where care and fresh ideas help keep things moving.  
Here, your contribution helps serve our customers, support our operations and enable our teams to do their best work. 

You’ll be encouraged to bring your strengths, supported to grow, and welcomed into a team where we make a meaningful difference together. 

 

Prof, Category Planning - GDE

Location - Uxbridge Based

Contract – Fixed Term Contract 6 Months 

Closing Date - 21st July 2026
 

What is in it for you?

In return for your commitment, in this role you will receive a competitive salary and the following benefits:  

Job Car 

Private Medical from Bupa

Pension plan and share plan 

2 Paid Volunteering days per year 

25 days holiday + bank holidays 

Flexible benefits include the ability to buy and sell annual leave, discounts scheme etc  

Leading-edge in-house training and development 

Development opportunities and fantastic local management teams to help support your career path  

 

What you become part of:

Soft drinks is an exciting, fast paced and always evolving category.  But what is the perfect soft drinks range for our customers?  At Coca-Cola European Partners, the category team are at the forefront of leading the soft drinks growth agenda.

It’s all about being experts in not just soft drinks but the shoppers and environments in which we sell. 

Understanding who is buying and drinking the products and which occasions and shopper missions are driving the category forward. The category team are also experts in retail and leisure, whether it’s in a supercentre, a convenience store, a cinema or a pub, getting under the skin of our customer environments where our shoppers and consumers are buying soft drinks and understanding the key triggers and barriers is key to delivering the right range recommendations and execution plans to grow the soft drinks category.

Using sales data and world class insights you will be responsible for delivering Range and Space recommendations across a GDE environment. Working alongside Category Managers and the CCEP GDE account teams you will ensure that best practice Soft Drinks Category principals are executed with customers, to unlock growth potential in the category.

 

What to expect:

Lead the strategic development of our soft drinks category across a key GDE environment, taking ownership of driving our strategic plans

Work with our GDE Customer Account teams to help develop and land our annual brand plans across the strategic customers

Work with the Category and Environment Teams to create range review recommendations for a GDE account to ensure best practice range and merchandising principles are implemented in customers

Evaluate the performance of range reviews and projects post launch to make recommendations for future growth

Developing range, space and merchandising 'Looks of Success' for activation

Data analysis and customer performance reporting for regular reporting routines

Use numerous data reporting systems, including customer specific systems

 

Skills & Essentials:

To be successful in this role you need to demonstrate excellent analytical and data processing skills; great communication skills, both verbal and written, and be confident in communicating with key stakeholders and customers. Experience gained from working within Category Management, Insights or Customer Management roles is essential.

 

 

 

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to 

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio