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Senior Category Manage - Marks and Spencer

Employer
HJ Human Capital Group
Location
Midlands or London area
Salary
up to £65,000 plus Benefits and Car
Closing date
13 Nov 2014

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

Hudson James Human Capital Group are exclusively 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?

As category manager you will be working across the Protein division predominantly within the own label area; you will report 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 will be a customer facing role with a key focus of increasing sales growth through strategic planning, insight in to the market and having complete customer understanding.

As part of this role you will also be:

  • Managing and building on existing relationships with the customers.
  • Working closely with the NPD department to ensure they have a full insight into the market; always as liaising with the commercial department.
  • Developing, implementing and managing promotional plans using category insight to meet the customer’s objectives.

To be successful in this role our client is looking for someone who are retailer or foodservice experience within the food industry preferably across the protein division. You should have past experience within category and marketing. As this is a customer facing role you should be able to present yourself effectively as well as be confident in liaising with people of all levels.

To be successful in this role you should be experienced at the following levels; Category Executive, Category Analyst, Category Manager, Insight Executive, Insight Analyst, Insight Manager, Customer Marketing Executive, Customer Marketing Executive, Customer Marketing Manager.

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

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