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Category Manager

Employer
Twinings c/o Mackenzie Jones
Location
Andover, Hampshire
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
19 Nov 2014

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

Category Manager

Andover, Hampshire

Competitive Salary

 

Twinings, the leader in premium teas business, with over 300 years of heritage, are looking for category talent to join their highly successful team. The Category function sits within the heart of the business and plays a leading role in driving the business strategy and agenda. Following huge growth within the premium tea sector and as the biggest player within this market, Twinings have seen huge success and profitability through a recessionary period and are growing. As a result of greater collaboration with retailers and some of its most pioneering launches, Twinings is looking to strengthen its category expertise and leadership position further through attracting new strategic category managers.

These roles are crucial to both internal and external decision making in regards to the retailers. The Category Manager will use their expert status to influence retailer actions, whilst being able to provide analysis of category & brand performance to inform brand activity and shape sales approaches. This will be based upon their approach as “trusted experts” and ‘category partners’. Working cross-functionally with colleagues in other functions, it is the role of the Category Manager to ensure that brand initiatives are fully connected to category insights & retail realities.

As a professional Category Manager, you will have worked in an FMCG business and have significant experience dealing with the major grocery mults, having continuous and in depth face to face contact and strong relationships within these accounts. You must be insight driven and not only be able to extract and understand data but bring it to life in terms of interpreting and presenting and using it as the basis to form category arguments.  As an individual, you will be both credible and engaging and have a highly collaborative working style, able to influence stakeholders at all levels. As well as being extremely passionate and driven you will be an ambitious individual with a clear idea of the direction in which you want your career to go.

If you feel you meet the criteria for this role and would like to find out more then please send your CV and a covering letter by clicking the 'Apply Now' button below

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