Space Manager Food Benelux

In this role, you drive shelf-alignment by translating category, shopper and retailer insights into practical shelf solutions for the Benelux market. You act as the main liaison for Retail, Discount and Away-from-home channels, ensuring the space vision and commercial plans are realized on-shelf. You lead cross-functional projects, optimize planograms and support assortment decisions with data-driven recommendations. This position offers meaningful impact through improving shopper experience and strengthening PepsiCo’s category partnership. You’ll work across teams and with retailers to shape shelf strategy in a dynamic, international setting.

• Lead Benelux space management projects in collaboration with GCC
• Coordinate planning, prioritization and workload across the Space Management team
• Ensure timely delivery of planograms, range reviews and strategic initiatives
• Drive process improvements in space management tools and ways of working
• Act as first point of contact for brand marketing on product dimensions and visual assets
• Advise stakeholders on shelf impact of portfolio, packaging and innovation decisions
• Collaborate with Category Management, Sales, Marketing and DX on growth projects
• Own development/quality of planogram recommendations for priority Benelux customers
• Translate assortment outputs into effective shelf solutions and rankings
• Continuously improve planogram proposals based on retailer feedback and market learnings
• Maintain data accuracy in Nielsen and Spaceman
• Develop and execute a future-focused Space Management Vision for Food in Benelux
• Translate insights into actionable shelf recommendations
• Identify growth opportunities via advanced space and assortment analysis
• Represent marketing innovations, portfolio changes and packaging on shelf
• Provide strategic recommendations on assortment, shelf allocation, facings and merchandising principles
• Engage with retailers on shelf reset projects and range reviews
• Understand retailer shelf planning processes and translate into commercial recommendations
• Present planogram, assortment and category insights to customers and internal stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with top 3 customer Space Management teams

• Bachelor in Economics
• 2-5 years of experience in FMCG or retail (Space Management, Category Management or Merchandising)
• Experience working with retailers and translating insights into commercial recommendations
• Strong analytical mindset with ability to convert data into actions
• Experience with Nielsen Discover, GfK and Space Management software (Spaceman or equivalent)
• Understanding of assortment optimization, category management and shelf productivity principles
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Strong project management abilities and ability to handle multiple priorities
• Influence and stakeholder management across functions and levels
• Excellent relationship-building and cross-functional collaboration
• Comfortable working in an international environment with global teams

• Collaborative mindset
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Curious and data-driven problem solving
• Nielsen Discover
• GfK
• Spaceman (or equivalent)