Category Manager (12 month FTC)

North West
Up to £45000 + Great benefits

The Company:

Would you like to work for A leading FMCG organisation, who have experienced continuous growth and are market leaders within their industry? Would you like to be part of a team and company, who together are the success behind major well known brands?

The Role:

In this role, you will responsible for developing and maintain key partnerships enabling delivery to be ahead of competitor as well as delivering first class insights. You will report into the a Senior Category Team Member working across come of the most successful brands within the business.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Deliver a full Category Management service to strategic customers, ensuring category and shopper insights evolve into deliverable in-store executions.  
• Develop consumer & shopper insights into clear trade messages and recommendations for both internal & external customers
• Input into the range review process with strategic retail partners from presentation to implementation. Support category team leader with data insights to deliver recommendations into retail partners.
• Provide category/brand/customer insights that enhance business understanding and deliver quantifiable benefits to both our brand and channel strategies.

• Appropriate influence in NPD process, ensuring all operational and on shelf impact considerations are communicated
• Produce range & merchandising recommendations for modular based channels. Update & communicate twice per year.
• Input into key business processes, eg budget meeting and strategy meeting etc.
• Build and maintain relationships with strategic UK retailer customer to influence category development in line with  company category strategy and brands
• Relationships with UK data providers to ensure conversion of data into actionable insights
• Relationships with peers to: formulate category / customer / brand strategies deliver strategies into customers propose solutions for issues / opportunities arising from data analysis

The Ideal Candidate:

To be considered for this amazing opportunity, you will be of graduate caliber with a track record or delivering result within a commercial environment working to tight deadlines. You will have strong presenting skills with experience of using and analysing external continuous data such as Kantar and Dunnhumby

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you then please click apply or send your application to sophie.birch@advocate-group.co.uk

Please note that whilst this is a 12 month FTC, there are always opportunities for permanent employment