Prof, Category Planning - GDE (6 Months Secondment)

Location - Uxbridge

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 principles 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.