Category Manager - Tesco

Category Manager – Tesco. Market leading branded FMCG business, providing category leadership with Tesco. £45-52k + benefits.

THE COMPANY 

My client is a leading global business that manufacture and sell many of the UK’s favourite brands. They truly can offer a long, varied and satisfying career, all offering rewarding opportunities to work with a diverse range of products and customers - solving real challenges, making a lasting impact and creating better futures.

They have a brilliant reputation for developing talent, offering a structured career development plan for all employees and access to industry leading training. You will experience more in one year here then you will in three years elsewhere.

THE ROLE 

As a Category Manager, you will be fully responsible for a multi million pound portfolio of brands across key categories with Tesco.

You will lead the execution of the category plan. Develop and execute strategies to maximise range, space, location, availability and macro space incorporating all category growth levers including off-fixture space, P&P solutions – the 4Ps!

As the Category Manager, you will ensure tactics within the plan are executed in store.  Evaluate the impact & ensure that learning’s feed into future planning & activation across the channel. 

THE PERSON 

• Current FMCG experience, within the multiple retail (Grocery/High St) sector.
• Tesco experience is beneficial.
• Track record of success within category management.
• Firsthand experience of managing customer relationships.
• Analytical and project management experience.
• Strong communicator (written & presented) with good facilitation skills.
• Demonstrable capability of applying category management thinking.
• Basic understanding of the latest shopper / market insight techniques.
• Degree educated.

The Daniel Williams Consultancy, a Hamilton Bradshaw Company chaired by James Caan, has been operating exclusively within the FMCG, Retail, Business to Business and Automotive sectors since 1991. In 2011 Hamilton Bradshaw was named by ‘Recruitment International’ as the fastest growing recruitment group in the world, having grown a portfolio with a turnover approaching £500m in less than five years of trading.

DWC have built an unrivalled reputation for service excellence with both clients and candidates and whether you’re a talented professional looking for a new career move or a business looking to recruit key personnel you can be assured our knowledgeable, industry specific consultants will successfully partner you through the process.