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Trainee Category Manager | Major Food Manufacturer | M1 Corridor

Employer
CSG.
Location
North Nottinghamshire or South Yorkshire. Easily Commutable from M1 or A1(M)
Salary
£Competitive + Package
Closing date
9 Oct 2014

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Job Details

The Business

As the UK’s No.1 Convenience Food Manufacturer, our client enjoys a great reputation with their customers. Well-known for innovating into new sub-categories through developing great products, fuelled with strong insights, this business has category captaincy within many of the major mults. As such, they are looking to bring on board a Category Supply Analyst to support the Category and Commercial teams in the intersection between insights and activation in-store.

The Role

As Category Supply Analyst you will use sales data and market insights to make recommendations across sales, space and waste. You will also be responsible for spotting opportunities to increase profitability and market-share for a major multiple accounts. Working cross-functionally at retailer head-office and within the business, this role has been described as the ‘feeding-ground’ for new talent across the category & commercial functions. Equipped with an excellent budget and a supportive team, you will be freed up to act autonomously and strengthen your own network and personal brand within a major mult, ensuring that you are set up for a category or commercial career on a major UK Grocery account.

The Person

You will already be operating as a Supply Analyst or Category/Account executive with an FMCG supplier or retailer, whether branded or own-label. Experience of ASDA is ideal. You will have had in-depth experience of producing insights from retailer EPOS systems, ideally Retail-Link. 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 rapid promotion.

How to Apply

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BW Penman have a dedicated FMCG team recruiting across Sales, Category, Marketing, Supply - Chain, Procurement, Operations, Technical & New Product Development.

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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