Perfect Store (TT) Lead

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

As Perfect Store Lead, you will lead the development and execution of Perfect Store strategies across key channels and customers in Saudi Arabia. You will drive best-in-class in-store execution, visibility, and merchandising standards, ensuring alignment with category and brand strategies while delivering sustainable sales growth and improved commercial performance.

You will translate shopper, category, and customer insights into actionable in-store solutions, continuously improving execution standards and identifying opportunities to strengthen Mondelēz International’s presence and competitiveness across the retail landscape.

How You Will Contribute

You will:

Develop and drive Perfect Store standards: Define and implement best-in-class in-store execution standards across primary shelf placement, secondary displays, and visibility solutions, aligned with brand and category strategies and adapted to different channels, customers, and retail environments.
Lead end-to-end execution: Own the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of in-store visibility and display initiatives, ensuring consistent execution and alignment with commercial priorities.
Drive merchandising excellence: Partner with internal stakeholders and external agencies to develop effective display solutions, optimize merchandising standards, and ensure compliance with Mondelēz International’s harmonized display guidelines and design simplification principles.
Monitor Perfect Store performance: Track and analyze Perfect Store KPIs, identify execution gaps and distribution opportunities, and translate insights into actionable improvement plans to drive business results.
Drive continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to improve in-store execution, promotional effectiveness, shelf availability, product visibility, and overall retail standards through data-driven recommendations.
Support commercial initiatives: Partner with Category Planning & Activation, Sales, and other relevant stakeholders on fast-track initiatives, including analysis, calculations, prioritization, approvals, execution monitoring, and performance evaluation.
Manage project delivery and budgets: Ensure effective project management, documentation, reporting, and budget utilization, maintaining visibility of project progress, risks, and outcomes.
Leverage market insights: Maintain a strong understanding of the Saudi retail landscape, customer dynamics, channel developments, shopper behavior, and competitor activities to identify opportunities and strengthen Mondelēz International’s market position.

What You Will Bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career, along with the following experience and knowledge:

4–6 years of relevant experience in Trade Marketing, Perfect Store, Category Management, Commercial Excellence, or Sales Execution within the FMCG industry.
Proven experience in developing and implementing in-store execution strategies, merchandising standards, and visibility initiatives.
Strong understanding of the retail environment, particularly the Saudi Arabian market, including key channels, customers, promotional tactics, and execution processes.
Experience working with Point of Buying (POB) agencies, merchandising partners, and retail auditing agencies.
Demonstrated ability to develop business reports, KPI dashboards, and performance tracking tools, providing insights into channel, customer, and shopper performance.
Strong analytical capabilities, commercial acumen, and the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations.
Experience in project management, managing multiple initiatives, timelines, budgets, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and work effectively across Sales, Marketing, Category Planning & Activation, and external partners.
Excellent problem-solving, planning, prioritization, and execution capabilities.
A proactive mindset, innovation orientation, and strong drive for results.

More about this role

Additional Job Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Sales, or another relevant discipline.
4–6 years of relevant professional experience, preferably within the FMCG industry.
Previous experience in Trade Marketing, Perfect Store, or a similar commercial execution role.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with business intelligence and data visualization tools is an advantage.
Customer-facing experience and exposure to key account management and retail operations are preferred.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Mondelēz International in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan serves the Middle East and Africa markets as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we have more than 2600 employees working across seven plants and six commercial offices; we make, bake, sell and deliver our products to customers. We are market leaders in key snacking categories with iconic global and local brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Milka, Oreo and belVita biscuits, Barni Cakes,Tang powdered beverage, Chiclets and Trident gum and Halls candy. 

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type

Regular

Category Planning & Activation

Sales