Manager, Regional Category Marketing - South America

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* This position will be posted internally for a minimum of 5 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

Shape the future of categories, inspire innovation, and drive growth across South America.

As Category Marketing Manager (SA), you will play a pivotal role in shaping Ball’s growth story across South America, transforming insights into strategies that create value for our customers and the business.

Leading the regional Category Marketing team, you will connect consumer, retail, brand, and industry trends with commercial opportunities, ensuring innovation and strategic initiatives are grounded in a true market-back perspective. Working closely with Commercial, Strategy, and Customer Innovation teams, you will act as a thought leader, influencing decisions, driving alignment, and helping customers unlock new opportunities through Ball’s solutions.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape category growth, strengthen customer partnerships, and drive innovation that delivers meaningful business impact while supporting Ball’s vision of building a more sustainable future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading team and owns/delivers region category management activity in alcohol, non-alcohol and others within customer opportunity landscape; develops deep knowledge of region markets, customers, categories, channels and route-to-market.
• Working cross functionally, develop robust Value Proposition and go-to-market plans.  Create with strategy teams the broader “market” opportunities.  Ensure market approach is consistent with specific Play To Win strategies.
• Responsible for developing and leading the customer marketing strategy of region to ensure products, services and programs meet the needs of  the ever-evolving fast moving consumer goods beverage industry with a strong linkage to our broader Strategy & Marketing teams, as well as the Global Strategy and Marketing COE.
• Leads analysis of customer/ company Brand strategies and meets with customers in support of Ball commercial leaders to sell value proposition by providing channel, category and comprehensive selling story.
• Provides vision and assists in accelerating customers brand growth by spearheading/collaborating on innovation, pack, price strategy creation with a full understanding of financial requirements by trade channel (large format, club, c-store etc…) strategies with our customer’s marketing and innovation teams.
• Develops and builds robust category management targeted market plans and participation strategies for region commercial portfolio.
• Collaborates with commercial leads in strategic planning activities, providing insights into the markets in which we compete and the marketing opportunities for our products
• Evaluates and requests tools and capabilities to support the ideal customer experience.
• Directs Ball’s region beverage trade show participation and execution of Ball and commercial team attendance.

 Requirements

• Job related experience in fast moving consumer package industry in Marketing and/or Commercial beverage category roles
• Graduate degree in related field preferred
• Strong story telling capabilities that communicate concise and clear story to help promote or sell ideas or concepts
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks with very short timelines/deadlines
• Must be able to build strong customer relationships
• Ability to lead, develop and mentor direct team members aiming high performance
• Advanced/Fluent English mandatory.

Additional information

• Location: São José dos Campos/SP
• Work model: Hybrid (3x week on-site)

When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role. 

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic. 

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

Position Level: Global Grade 12