Leading local brands

Meet Helena - Malaco Djungelvrål fan; “nice and salty”

Category manager, Sweden

I am Helena and my role as a Category Manager is to provide the business and the customers with marketing analysis and insights about what is driving the category. Cloetta has a lot of competent employees in different areas. This means there are experts in every position, which is of great value in my daily work.

I have learned so much here. It feels fun but also developing. We are good in giving direct feedback and the trust is high within the team. On top of this, the company culture really encourages pride for you and your teams’ efforts. We share our successes every week in the department.

Life at Cloetta is never ever boring. If we do a campaign in one week, I can make analysis and follow ups already the week after. This makes it more exciting both in the tactical and strategic business planning, since it is possible to make big difference both in short and long term. We often eat something together. Somedays we do a “walk and talk” on our way to grab some salads, just to get some exercise between the meetings.

Meet Tove – Tupla lover; “there should be a mega king size version”

HR Business Partner, Sweden

Hi! I´m Tove. A Swedish-speaking Finn, born on an island and now living in Sweden’s third largest city, Malmoe. Work life balance is key to everything right now, including a lot of inspiring work, a lot of fun family-time (two kids and my husband) and some running in between to clear my head.

Whenever I talk about Cloetta “at birthday parties” I tell them that I work in a fast paced organization, with fantastic products and ambitious employees. I would say we are a little bit like “Pick & Mix candy”. Cloetta offers a fantastic and fun variation of work assignments/ projects just like Pick & Mix – except it´s not candy.

Yearly, me and my manager agree upon a couple of objectives and then I work under the principle of freedom with responsibility. When I reach my objectives I know that I have made a difference for Cloetta.

What I really like is that, due to our flat company structure and culture, I feel very comfortable around management. I can chit-chat with them by the coffee machine and overall, they are like any other colleague. Except they need to make tough decisions sometimes 😉 Yet still each Friday we have a big bowl of candy in the lunch-room! It adds the fun.

Meet Mattias – Kexchoklad, Skipper´s pipe and Polly fan; “it is impossible to choose just one”

Head of Strategy and Acquisition, Sweden

Hi! My name is Mattias and I work at the Cloetta head office in Stockholm. Originally from south of Sweden, and I have been with Cloetta since early 2016. I have many passions evolving around doing outdoor-activities with my friends and family. To be able to combine an interesting and stimulating job with this passion is something that I cherish highly. What I really appreciate with my job is that it is fairly flexible, and with the technology of today, I am not necessarily always in the office when I am working.

I work for the Cloetta Group, meaning that I’m not fully focusing on one specific market but rather on various projects across Cloetta that are implemented and run in all countries and functions, such as value improvement programs or scanning the market for potential acquisitions.

I must say that the things that I value the most is that all colleagues across our markets are truly committed to what we want to achieve. For me, Cloetta is an optimal sized organization with the fast paced, entrepreneurial features, of a smaller company and the financial strengths and ambitions of global FMCG companies around the world. I think Cloetta is unique in that way, we have the local strong heritage brands but also the scale and synergies from being a bigger player on the European market. Also, the fact that the people that I work with on a daily basis are smart and passionate about Cloetta also helps when going to work every day. As a fellow Cloetta colleague once expressed, “we don´t take ourselves too seriously, but we are extremely serious about our business”.