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Category Manager - x5

Employer
HJ Human Capital Group
Location
West Midland and Nottinghamshire
Salary
up to £60,000 plus benefits
Closing date
22 Aug 2014

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

Hudson James Human Capital Group are currently partnering with one of the largest food manufacturing businesses in the UK on a number of interesting opportunities.

Are you a category professional looking for a new role within food? Do you have previous experience across chilled division working closely with top 5 retailers / foodservice?

There are a number of roles available across 2 different divisions; 3 category managers across added value poultry and 2 category managers across Pizza.

Category Manager – Added Poultry

As category manager across the added poultry division you will be either working on a food service account, or a Sainsbury’s and Aldi account, or working on developing new business. This role will be reporting into the Head of Category and Insight and will be working to establish and maintain engagement with all contacts within customers and key stakeholders. This role will be working primarily across the own label.

Category Manager - Pizza

As Category Manager across the Pizza division you will be either working with M&S or Tesco’s and will be reporting into the Divisional Category Controller.  This role will entail working with own label and branded.

Key Responsibilities in all of these roles:

  • Ensuring regular and insightful updates delivered in a timely way to build trust and respect.
  • Setting standards within the division to achieve ‘best-in-class’ status.
  • Ensuring alignment within the development of the channel plan, with the customer’s strategic priorities.
  • To deliver the channel plan successfully in order to lead market growth.
  • To ensure all market, shopper and retailer specific insight is incorporated into the innovation process.
  • Development and executive of the point of purchase vision within retailers.

Across both of these divisions you will be customer focused therefore should have excellent communication skills as well as personal skills in order to develop and build on existing contacts within the customers. You will be working as part of a team as well as liaising with NPD and Commercial departments; you should have perfect market knowledge in order to be successful and will be ensuring that other departments are also up to date with market trends.

To be successful in these roles it is essential that you are degree educated and have relevant marketing experience within the chilled food FMCG area. You should have a knowledge of NPD and factory engagement.

For more information please contact Sophie at Hudson James Human Capital Group on sophie@hudsonjames.co.uk or on  0113 320 2430.

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