Category lead - Tesco
- Employer
- Vitae Selection Ltd.
- Location
- Leeds or Manchester
- Salary
- up to £65,000 plus package
- Closing date
- 21 Oct 2014
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management, Marketing, National Accounts
Job Details
This global FMCG player is a well-regarded international business operating across multiple categories supplying both branded and own label products. Due to positive structural change and a huge investment in Category, Innovation and Marketing the business is now primed to support the massive growth that they are experiencing.
The category team will be core to the business and will shape the future of the category. This business has a major commitment to pushing the profile and voice of category and insights internally and with customers. You would have a major focus upon what’s next both within the current portfolio and new customers/channels given marketing and category is getting much closer across the wider business. Opportunities to influence will be much greater and decisions upon Tesco tend to influence thinking across other areas of the group giving you and very high profile and visibility. This is a challenging and rewarding role for a talented and ambitious professional who wants to develop their career.
You
- At least 4/5 years FMCG experience in category with excellent knowledge of the top 4 retailers, Tesco experience would be an advantage
- Very commercially minded with strong customer skills
- Strategic thinker with leadership skills
- High potential capability and someone who is looking to advance their skills
- A contributor to business strategy and comfortable operating at senior level
- Excellent communication skills
For a confidential briefing on this very exciting and important hire please get in touch with Andrew Osbaldeston at Vitae Selection.
Company
The Vitae team truly understands the ferocity of today’s trading climate and the need to find and secure the very best talent embodied through an extensive network and a true commitment to the sectors.
Our combined recruitment experience within the Consumer practice gives a robust proposition to any client within our markets looking to make a serious investment in talent.
Vitae’s approach is a combination of both Search and Selection services. We have a thorough understanding of HR policy and procedure and regularly work as a preferred supplier to selected clients. Our team has worked on high profile single search mandates for senior permanent moves as well as high quality Interim hires together with multiple hire projects requiring well-co-ordinated advertising campaigns to deliver large scale teams. Our candidates benefit greatly from our insight into different business cultures together with our proactive model in finding and matching candidates to jobs. Our professionalism and delivery within these sectors in backed up by overwhelmingly positive feedback from both our clients and candidates.
Vitae work with a range of clients including large Global Food Brand’s, Plc.’s, Major Own label producers, Corporations, Owner Managed Firms and Private Equity backed businesses.
Core Markets
• Food & Drinks- Branded & Own Label
• Consumer Goods – Non- Food, White & Brown goods, Sporting Goods
• Ingredients – Flavour systems, Food Ingredients
• Retail- Grocery, General merchandise
• Packaging- Corrugated, Cartons, Closures, Plastics, Film, GNFR, Flexible and Injection Molding
- Telephone
- 0113 394 4950
- Location
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21 York Place
Leeds
LS1 2EX
GB
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