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Category Manager Food: Grocery Full or part-time

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Job Description - Category Manager Food: Grocery Full or part-time

This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic thinker with a proven track record in driving category growth, to join an ambitious team and develop their career as a Category Manager.

Client Details

Our client is a global business, with the number one brand within the category they're famous for, and are driving growth in competitor categories also.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the growing category team and help them continue to both lead from the front, and to challenge and grow in other categories.

Description

  • Enhance, progress and leverage their category relationships with major grocery customers to work closely and collaboratively as a category advisor (or challenger)
  • Deliver credible, insight led and actionable recommendations to support the growth of the category, customer and Andros
  • Advise retailers through key decision making periods, effectively influencing range, space and distribution decisions
  • Work collaboratively with marketing to provide a shopper, retailer and competitor perspective to identify key questions and challenges for the category or business
  • Identifying gaps and opportunities for growth and developing compelling sell-in stories
  • Support the development of consumer/shopper and category centric NPD and initiatives
  • To be the voice of the shopper both internally and externally
  • Work with the Category team to develop and embed category visions, drivers and strategies both internally and externally

Profile

The candidate will:

  • Be from an FMCG background, preferably in the UK grocery market (food a bonus)
  • Display a commercial mindset, with proven experience in national account management, category management or marketing
  • Have exceptional communication and influencing skills
  • Be an analytical thinker, comfortable with large data sets
  • Possess the ability to make insight simple, actionable and compelling
  • Demonstrate they can work under pressure whilst being highly organised and efficient
  • Be able to manage short term deliverables in parallel to developing long term strategic plans
  • Have excellent relationship building skills, both internally and externally and be comfortable presenting data
  • Hold working knowledge of Circana/Nielsen, Kantar and Dunnhumby
  • Be curious, eager to learn, have a 'can do' and forward thinking attitude
  • Must be able to travel to Hammersmith 5 days a week, or 4 days a week on a part-time basis

Job Offer

  • £45,000-£65,000
  • Car allowance
  • 25 days holiday and Bank Holidays
  • Personal private health care
  • 6% employer pension contribution
  • 4 x salary life assurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme
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