Category Manager | South/South West | Food | Mults | Innovative Firm
- Employer
- Catman Jobs
- Location
- South West
- Salary
- Competitive + Car + Bonus
- Closing date
- 1 Oct 2014
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management, Marketing, Merchandising
Job Details
Catman Jobs are currently recruiting a Category Manager for a business based in the south/south-west area.
The Business
As a market leader in terms of its product innovation within their chilled savoury category, our clients success is based as much on its forward thinking mentality as it is its 150 years of history. Operating under a number of both long established and newly developed products, this market leading food manufacturer is currently in the process of expanding its Category Management team on its MULTS accounts. With a product offering that includes both branded and own label fare, the group provides a diverse challenge.
The Role
Our client is looking for an effective Category Manager to expand their growing Category team and support the future development of the category. The role reports directly into the General Manager As this company has a manufacturing setup that allows for the exploration of new techniques and products, a key part of the role will identifying gaps within the current market. Working closely with Top 4 retailers, you will be able expected to present balanced and unbiased advice, which is commercially savvy for both businesses and grow the relationship long-term.
The Person
You will have Category Management experience amongst one or more of the top 6 retailers, and have an understanding of how they work and how to get things done. In your previous experience you will have experience of working within the food FMCG environment and be familiar with both in-house retailer data and 3rd party market data (Kantar, Nielsen etc.). An appreciation of the commercial side of the business and the ability work closely with the National Accounts teams will be an important part of the role.
CatMan jobs specialise in Category jobs, Trade jobs, Customer jobs, Shopper marketing and insight jobs across the UK.
Company
Catmanjob.com was created in 2006 as a specialist division specifically supporting category, shopper and net revenue professionals. The brain child of Paul Nyman who realised at the time “we just didn’t know enough about category management and how it affects a business”. Catmanjobs operates as a division of Paul Nyman Consultancy, which was established in 2004 to support wider FMCG recruitment markets, after Paul was made redundant, and toured the UK recruitment market seeking employment to pay the mortgage.
During this journey he identified some of the most important characteristics for job seekers hunting for a new role:
- Understand what I, as a candidate can do.
- Honestly tell me why I cannot perform in the role I applied for.
- Know how your clients can advance my career.
- Get back to me.
- Don’t BS me.
These have become entwined in the approach the team at Paul Nyman Consultancy take to support individuals achieve career success across the UK and Europe.
We offer not just recruitment, but wider career support and development through workshops which include national and international recruitment and development experience.
Not just a recruiter.
We enjoy being career developers.
- Website
- http://www.catmanjobs.com/
- Telephone
- 07956 029 624
- Location
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Paul Nyman Consultancy
Waterside
Old Boston Road
Wetherby
West Yorkshire
LS22 5NB
United Kingdom
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