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Category Manager - Grocery

Employer
Daniel Williams Consultancy
Location
South East
Salary
£45k - 52k per year + Benefits
Closing date
22 Oct 2014

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Category Management, Sales

Job Details

Category Manager – Grocery. Market leading branded FMCG business, providing category leadership with Top 4 Grocery account. £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 the huge ambition of doubling in size and this is a great business to consider at any time in your career. 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 category management team is highly commercial, flexible, fast-paced, un-bureaucratic and determined to succeed. This is a great business to consider at the front end of your career as you will gain real exposure and be given industry leading training & development opportunities.

 

 

 

THE ROLE 

 

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

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.

Given the collaborative nature of the company and the influential role of the Category Manager, the company expects you to be customer facing as much as possible. As such you should plan to be office based approx 2-3 days a week, with the rest spent working from the customer.

 

THE PERSON 

 

  • Current FMCG experience, within the multiple retail (Grocery/High St) sector.
  • 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.

Company

Daniel Williams Consultancy’s dedicated FMCG Sales Recruitment team have comprehensive industry and specialist knowledge gained from operating in the sector for over 20 years. They have nurtured a varied client base from prestigious names in the FMCG industry to ambitious start-ups in the UK and International markets. This gives candidates a broad range of opportunity from entry to director level in the branded and private label categories.

DWC is a Hamilton Bradshaw Company chaired by James Caan and has been operating exclusively within the FMCG, Retail, Business to Business and Automotive sectors since 1991. 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.

Company info
Telephone
01494 538855
Location
Tempus Court
Bellfield Road
High Wycombe
HP13 5HA
GB

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