The Global Performance & Value Manager is responsible for ensuring that Emma captures the full commercial value of its product portfolio — by connecting product performance, pricing architecture, and competitive intelligence into actionable insight.
This is a newly created role designed to address one of the most critical gaps identified in the category diagnostic: the absence of a structured pricing framework, a clear performance intelligence function, and a structured competitive monitoring capability. Today, pricing decisions lack governance, performance tracking is high-level, and competitive intelligence is fragmented. This role exists to fix that.
You will build the analytical backbone of Category Management — providing the data, frameworks, and strategic insight that make better portfolio decisions possible, and ensuring that pricing logic holds across markets, channels, and the full product lifecycle.
What you'll do:
- Design, build and own global category performance dashboards in partnership with BI and Data teams
- Define the KPI framework for the category: which metrics matter, how they are measured, and at what frequency
- Track and analyse product performance across all global markets:
- Revenue, volume, and margin by SKU, channel, and market
- Return rate and NPS correlation with product attributes and positioning
- Portfolio mix evolution and contribution margin by tier
- Channel performance across DTC, marketplace, and retail
- Identify performance gaps, growth opportunities, and structural category issues — and translate them into clear recommendations
- Produce monthly performance reviews and quarterly category performance deep-dives for senior stakeholders
- Build the category portfolio assessment framework (combining CM, return rate, revenue, and mix) to steer investment and rationalisation decisions
- Design and maintain global price ladders, pricing tiers, and trade-up logic for each product category
- Define pricing corridors by channel, market cluster, and product tier — ensuring coherence across the portfolio
- Maintain & update a pricing elasticity model to inform strategic pricing decisions and promotional planning
- Support pricing decisions for new product launches — working closely with Global Category Managers and Finance
- Conduct regular price-value assessments: are products priced coherently relative to consumer-perceived value and competitive positioning?
- Identify pricing risks (undercutting, margin compression, channel conflict) and propose corrective actions
- Build a pricing governance framework ensuring decisions are documented, consistent, and defensible
- Define promo guardrails and governance standards (frequency, depth, product eligibility, channel fit)
- Build and maintain a promotional effectiveness tracking model — measuring actual ROI vs planned
- Collaborate with countries to conduct pre- and post-promo analysis to identify what works, at what cost, and for which products
- Work with Regional Category Managers to evaluate EU, APAC, and LATAM promo requests against global guardrails
- Identify structural promo dependency risks (habituation, margin erosion, brand degradation) and escalate early
- Partner with Finance and Commercial to ensure promo plans are margin-accretive or strategically justified
- Own and continuously maintain a structured competitive landscape view across Emma's core categories
- Track competitor pricing, product launches, positioning changes, and promotional activity across key markets
- Develop a repeatable, scalable competitive intelligence process — pulling from multiple sources (online scraping, trade press, field reports, mystery shopping)
- Analyse market sizing, category growth rates, and channel shifts to identify whitespace and strategic risks
- Deliver regular competitive intelligence reports and ad-hoc briefs when significant competitor moves occur
- Support business case modelling with validated market data and external benchmarks
- Serve as the analytical partner to Global and Regional Category Managers — providing the data backbone for strategic decisions
- Build and validate business cases for new product investments, portfolio changes, and category expansion
- Support market sizing exercises, opportunity assessments, and go/no-go frameworks for innovation
- Work with Finance to translate category insights into P&L impact, investment return projections, and budget inputs
- Develop self-service analytics tools and templates that help the broader category team make faster, better decisions
1. Category Performance Intelligence
2. Pricing Architecture & Value Capture
3. Promotional Governance & ROI Framework
4. Competitive & Market Intelligence
5. Category Decision Support & Business Cases
Who we are looking for:
- 5–8 years in pricing, strategy, business analytics, revenue management, or category performance in a consumer goods, DTC, e-commerce, or retail context
- Proven experience designing or operating pricing frameworks and governance processes
- Experience working with BI tools and building performance dashboards (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or equivalent)
- Experience using statistics and data science to inform business and commercial decisions
- Experience with competitive intelligence and market analysis methodologies
- Background in building business cases and financial models for portfolio or pricing decisions
- Highly analytical and data-literate: you are comfortable in Excel and BI tools, and can build models independently
- Solid foundation in statistics (hypothesis testing, regression basics, distributions, interpreting outputs) and clear understanding of clustering methods (e.g., k-means) and their practical limitations
- Working knowledge of Python for data analysis (e.g., pandas, basic scripting, data cleaning, exploratory analysis)
- Track record of translating complex data into clear, decision-ready business recommendations
- Pricing-first thinker: you understand the interplay between pricing, perceived value, volume, and margin
- Structured and rigorous: you build frameworks that hold up under scrutiny and can be used repeatedly
- Business-oriented: you translate insights into decisions, not just reports
- Strong communicator: able to present complex analytical findings clearly to non-analytical audiences including leadership
- Collaborative: you work as a service partner to category managers — empowering their decisions, not replacing them
- Proactive: you spot issues and opportunities before being asked, and you come with solutions
What we offer:
- At Emma, you’ll find a culture of freedom, impact, and zero politics. We give you full ownership from day one and expect you to move fast, think big, and grow even faster.
- Pet-friendly environment, where you can bring your furry desk buddy;
- Discounts on our top-notch products;
- Health insurance including dentist;
- 24 days holidays/year +1 day/year at Emma (máx. 29 days);
- The opportunity to collaborate with multinational teams;
- Exciting events that aren't just team-building exercises but opportunities to create epic memories.