Are you an ambitious and experienced professional looking for an exciting opportunity with one of the world's biggest FMCG businesses? If so please read on and discover this role as Category Development Manager.

Being a Category Development Manager at Nestlé Waters is about being responsible for and building sustainable category relationships with key High Street & Travel customers through creating and selling category and shopper recommendations, with a focus on turning data into actionable insights. As Category Development Manager you’ll be rewarded with an attractive package (competitive basic, up to 8% bonus and excellent wider benefits). More importantly, you’ll be working with a range of products that will inspire you.

Our Story

Nestlé SA is the world’s leading health, wellness and nutrition company, with over seven thousand employees in the UK and Ireland alone across the 19 sites of all our business. We are proud to produce some of Britain’s best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, Go Cat and Shreddies. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year. Nestlé Waters is the world leader in the bottled water market and we’re committed to bottling the very best waters from the source and straight to our customers via the most advanced and sustainable techniques currently employed. We have a genuine passion for healthy hydration, a fabulous portfolio of brands, a clear strategy and a determination to win in the marketplace of both consumers and customers. The UK business is based in Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, within easy striking distance of major transport links and the capital.

Our Opportunity

As Category Development Manager, based in at Nestlé Waters HQ in Rickmansworth, you will take on the responsibility of providing support in creating selling platforms that will enable Nestlé Waters UK to grow sales, market share and profit for High Street & Travel channel. As Category Development Manager you will focus on ensuring that the shopper is at the heart of our category and commercial agenda. We’re looking for an experienced Category Development Manager to join our ambitious Nestlé Waters team. Your role will be varied but focussed on building long term category relationships with customers, and you will develop credible range review recommendations as well as leveraging and converting shopper insights to deliver innovative category growth plans. You will also be responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of promotions and use these learnings to help shape future plans.

You

You’ll be an experienced Category Development Manager, of Graduate calibre with a proven track record of working with data, shopper insights and category planning. Sales experience is a bonus. We would like you to have experience of working with Business Managers and demonstrate how you harness current trends, and enable alignment with the commercial and category plans. You will be able to demonstrate supporting the development and sell of commercial propositions for new product launches (NPD). We would like you to be confident in using and manipulating data using Excel, Nielsen, Kantar etc. You’ll be motivated and driven, and looking for a role that you can really make a difference to. We encourage independence and creativity, and you’ll be given as much responsibility as you can handle. We have a friendly and supportive team and a coaching and mentoring environment with real opportunities for future development and progression – this really could be a move towards the exciting career you’ve always wanted.

What you need to know

Nestlé has a strong benefits package which includes, for this role as Category Development Manager, a competitive salary dependent on experience, car allowance, private medical cover for you, a competitive pension, up to 8% bonus and 25 days holiday. The closing date for this role is 19th December 2014. We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don’t delay in submitting your application as Category Development Manager. Nestlé UK & I is committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.