The Role

We have a really exciting opportunity for a Category Marketing Manager to help lead our relationship with one of the standard bearers when it comes to quality food - M&S. This role will be responsible for identifying category opportunities and risks along with making recommendations for ranging, merchandising and marketing support for Marks & Spencer and Greencore Northampton.

The Detail

As the Category Marketing Manager you will work closely with Marks and Spencer and you will be responsible for our M&S Eating Out of Home Category. This is an extremely vibrant and fast growing sector of our relationship with M&S and the successful Category Manager will be tasked with growing Greencore's influence by maximising all opportunities for M&S. This will include identifying opportunities and risks and building out recommendations for ranging, merchandising and marketing support.

As you'll be working so closely with Marks & Spencer you'll look to actively build your network to enable your influence to grow ensuring you'll be able to help retain our Gold Standard category partnership.

One of the key parts of your role will be to take work very closely with Greencore's Innovation Managers and the M&S Product Development team to provide insight and direction to help create the 18 month innovation plan. You'll be able to use and develop the Greencore Market data capability and utilise this to help drive ongoing analysis and reporting on both market and retailer data to enable you to develop and maintain category sector plans.

What's in it For You?

You will get the opportunity to have a visible impact on the strategy of one of the UKs premier food brands in Marks & Spencer. You'll also get to work for a company that really does put people at the core. Our Learning and Development team has delivered over 30,000 hours of training directly to our staff along with supporting people through various external courses.

Whilst you will be part of a very closely nit marketing management team you'll also be part of a much wider commercial team. Here you'll be part of an active and diverse team including sales and new product development. As we're a food company and you'll be part of the team working on development you'll get to influence and taste the latest and greatest products. Possibly best of all though you'll have the opportunity to enjoy cake club!

What we look for

Working in Marketing with Greencore and M&S offers great opportunities to have a really visible impact on one of the UKs leading food brands. As such we'd be looking for you to bring with you a great track record in Category Management. You'll also be able to showcase your ability to create really striking and engaging presentations along with being able to understand how your work impacts at store level and to the shopper.

You'll be able to demonstrate that along with a strong numerical/analytical mind that you're able to turn insight into actionable recommendations. Of course you'll have expert level skills in Excel and data systems (such as Nielsen Answers). You'll be able to marry the two sides of both managing a category and really understanding the people side of marketing.

About Us

Greencore Group plc is a leading convenience food business with an annual turnover in excess of £1.2 billion. Operating 15 high-quality convenience food manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom and a further 7 in the United States, we employ more than 11,000 people providing a wide range of chilled, frozen and ambient foods to major retail and food service customers in the UK, the US and Ireland. A little more can be found here: https://vimeo.com/117794857

Greencore Food to Go is the UK's leading sandwich manufacturer. It also produces prepared salads and sushi out of its five state-of-the-art facilities in Manton Wood, Nottinghamshire; Northampton, Bow and Park Royal in London; Crosby in Merseyside as well as Spalding in Lincolnshire. Greencore produces around 400 million sandwiches each year and supplies food to go products to the majority of the UK's retailers.

Greencore Northampton is undergoing unprecedented growth with £30 Million worth of investment announced for our site. The end result of this is that we've doubled capacity in one of our three factories and are currently building a fourth in the to be open next year!