SCA is a leading global hygiene and forest products company. In the UK, our brands are Bodyform, Cushelle, Velvet & Plenty and we also work with our retailer partners on their own brands.

The SCA Group develops and produces sustainable personal care, tissue and forest products. Sales are conducted in over 100 countries under strong global brands including TENA and Tork.

As Europe’s largest private forest owner, SCA places considerable emphasis on sustainable forest management. The Group has about 44,000 employees. Sales in 2014 amounted to approximately SEK 104bn (EUR 11.4bn). SCA was founded in 1929, has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, and is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. For more information, visit www.sca.com.

Today we are looking to hire a Category Manager for our Manchester office to work within the Customer Marketing Department. In this role, you will deliver UK objectives across a category by improving retailer category performance and ensuring SCA deliver on our objectives.

Main Tasks

• Help deploy the category vision and identify relevant category opportunities for growth. Have the tools in place to  develop these appropriately with  each of your assigned customers

• Deliver range review recommendations to assigned customers, utilising Category Management as an everyday way of working both internally and externally

• Provide data based rationale to steer and support new product development and positioning, as well as identifying greatest customer and consumer opportunities

• Secure preferred supplier status with key customers

• Provide proactive support for chosen customers strategies, helping advise and review performance

• Cascade out to the business monthly reports tracking the market, brands, retailer performance, causes and effects

• Interpret the data to include actionable recommendations for corrective action or optimisation versus targets

• Ensure all databases for assigned category are accurate

• Analyse promotions for assigned customers and report findings with recommended actions

• Be part of a cross functional Brand Working Group focused on monitoring, measuring vs targets and also identifying opportunities as part of the team

• Act as “shopper” expert for all decisions on assigned category within the product team group

• Assist the team in the Business Planning Cycle

Experience and qualification requirements

• Degree education or equivalent with at least three years’ experience in Category Management.

• Experience of IRI/ Nielsen/ Kantar databases (Dunhumby & Aimia an advantage)

• Range review and merchandising skills an advantage

• Able to develop and deploy category strategies

• Strong data analysis skills and the ability to summarise effectively

• Excellent communication skills

• Customer focused and proactive approach to work.

• Good understanding of the retail market

• Understanding of shopper / customer insight.