Location: Bryanston 

Qualification: Bachelors degree in Marketing/ Supply Chain or any relevant BCom degree

Experience: 4-5 years’ commercial experience with previous experience in Marketing & Sales

Closing Date: 19 August 2026

Position Summary

We’re looking for a Commercial Development Team (CDT) Executive to support the CDT Manager in driving the Category and Channel agenda. The role focuses on delivering long-term category growth, increasing market share profitably, and translating shopper, customer and channel insights into actionable commercial plans.

A day in the life of a CDT Executive - Confectionery:

• Commercial strategy and planning: Support the CDT Manager in developing and aligning category, brand, channel, shopper and customer plans through the commercial planning process.
• Category growth: Identify growth opportunities using shopper data, customer needs and consumer demand insights, and help build compelling category growth stories.
• Insights and shopper understanding: Gather, interpret and translate shopper, consumer, customer and channel insights into actionable plans that support category and customer strategies.
• Omni-channel execution: Understand physical and digital channel dynamics, define the Picture of Success by category and channel, and support implementation and continuous optimisation.
• Profitable sales growth: Support pricing, promotion, pack-price architecture, trade investment and mix management initiatives to improve customer margin and return on investment.
• Availability and visibility: Drive consistent shopper messaging and track execution of Picture of Success across channels, partnering cross-functionally to improve in-store and digital execution.
• Customer engagement: Support customer teams with actionable insights and compelling category stories that build trust, satisfaction and mutual growth.

What will make you successful:

• Bachelors degree in Marketing/ Supply Chain or any relevant BCom degree
• 4-5 years’ commercial experience with previous experience in Marketing & Sales
• Cross functional teamwork experience.
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organising and presentation skills
• Strong executional focus and category management