Interim Senior Category Manager | Major Food Manufacturer
- Employer
- CSG.
- Location
- West Midlands
- Salary
- £CompetitiveK + Package
- Closing date
- 6 Aug 2014
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Interim
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management, Marketing
Job Details
The Business
One of the largest players in their market, our client has an excellent track-record for strong product innovation and developing fantastic relationships at a top level through excellent category management. A significant budget has been earmarked for exciting increasing the category resource. As part of this, they are looking to bring on board an interim senior category manager to add resource to their team, during the transition period of this major piece of recruitment.
The Role
You will be responsible for driving relationships at a top level with two of the UK's most premium grocery retail accounts. You will use a variety of panel data and retail EPOS data to construct detailed insights into the market and opportunities within this. This will form the bedrock on which you will build collaborative business strategy going forwards, encompassing NPD, merchandising, PoS, range and mix. Equipped with an excellent data budget and a supportive Insights team, you will be working on some exciting new projects geared aimed at understanding macro-trends within a number of under-tapped sub-categories.
The Person
You will have experience operating as Category Manager level within the FMCG industry, ideally with branded or own-label experience. You will have had in-depth experience of producing insights from a wide range of panel data-sets and retailer EPOS systems and will have an extremely strong numerical aptitude. Most importantly, you will have excellent attention to detail and the ability to translate and present intricate insights into commercial strategy with brevity and passion. These qualities will quickly earn you the reputation you deserve internally and lay the groundwork for quick success
How to Apply
Interested? Call Richard at BW Penman on 0113 2585 150 or email me at richard.bennigsen@bwpenman.com
BW Penman have a dedicated FMCG team recruiting across Sales, Category, Marketing, Supply - Chain, Procurement, Operations, Technical & New Product Development.
Due to the number of applications we receive, BW Penman are unfortunately unable to respond to all interest. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
Company
Established in 2003, the Combined Selection Group source the world’s best talent for clients in over 50 countries globally, offering recruitment solutions in permanent, contract and executive search.
Operating from 10 international offices with regional hubs across the UK, EMEA, US & ASIAPAC.
Our Vision is to be the first and continuous choice, when managing both our clients’ global talent needs and candidates' long term careers.
Focusing on six major Practice areas of Built Environment, Consumer, Energy, Health & Social Care, Industrial Technology and Life Science sectors.
The company was formed in 2003 and in 2015 a rebrand brought together six previously separate recruitment brands (Blue Marble, BW Penman, Core Consulting, Core Care, Rilwood Associates and Whiterock Executive) under one new brand, CSG – The Global Talent Experts.
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