Category - Marketing Assistant / Food / Kent / £25k + package.
- Employer
- DR Newitt
- Location
- Kent.
- Salary
- £25k + package.
- Closing date
- 11 Nov 2014
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Buying, Category Management, Marketing, Merchandising, Sales
Job Details
Our client is a successful food business. They are a growing business who are very much a leader in their product category. The business has an exciting range of high quality food products that they supply into the UK’s major retailers.
They are looking to expand their commercial team with a Category & Marketing Assistant.
The Role
Category & Marketing Assistant
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
- Compile retailer data reports & where appropriate produce recommendations
- Regular store visits to check displays, implementation of marketing plans and update business with photos and reports
- Manage in-store sampling activity and any store related projects as requested by retailers
- Support Category team in weekly tasks and ad hoc workstreams eg category plans, seasonal reviews
- Responsible for updating Intranet & Extranet, including weekly sales report
- Support organisation of conferences as required
- Creation of grower profiles and maintenance of these ongoing
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Report compilation and data entry
- Supporting both function’s daily and weekly tasks as required.
- Visiting stores to check display standards and implementation.
- Extranet/Intranet updates plus publication of weekly sales report
- Support PR, Media and Comms officer - media trawl & press circulation
- Specific project work as required
- Collate responses to Spring & Autumn conferences & help organise functions
- Organise sample requests & manage in-store sampling
- Collating grower profiles and maintenance of the data
- Ad hoc duties as requested
The Candidate
- Category/Marketing experience within food or fmcg.
- Ideally degree educated.
- Excellent communication skills.
What's on Offer
- Excellent basic salary + benefits.
- Excellent career progression options in a fast paced growing business.
If you are interested in this position then please forward a copy of your most up to date CV to greg@drnewitt.com or contact Greg Carroll on 0131 226 5060.
Company
D R Newitt are Food, Drink and FMCG recruitment specialists providing permanent and interim recruitment services:
We offer Headhunting, Search & Selection and Advertising services across the following disciplines:
• Sales
• Marketing and Category
• Executive
• Supply Chain / Buying
• Technical / Quality
• NPD / Process / Development Chefs
• Operations / Manufacturing
• Engineering
• HR and Finance
To enquire about a specific role or to have a confidential discussion about your career path, call or email us:
- Edinburgh Office 0131 226 5060
- Manchester Office 0161 833 0181
- Website
- http://www.drnewitt.com/
- Telephone
- 0131 226 5060
- Location
-
38 Melville Street
Edinburgh
Midlothian
EH3 7HA
United Kingdom
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