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Category Manager

Employer
Better Placed Recruitment
Location
West Yorkshire
Salary
£40000 per annum
Closing date
3 Jun 2015

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

Job Details



My client, a UK leading Food business supplying branded and own label products to the retail and foodservice sector is seeking a Category Manager to join their high performing category function.

The key remit of this role is to manage market and consumer insight within the retail and product market. There will be two areas of impact; analysing category management data and identifying market opportunities in order to create a vision to drive profitability through NPD.

In this position, the Category Manager will develop the following:
  • Develop marketing plans to drive customer profitability, innovation, brand development through consumer and market insights
  • Monthly reporting of marketing trends and retailer performance
  • Development of the category strategy and vision to influence category development including range, space and merchandising plans.
  • Analyse data and present effectively, using various market data systems (Kantar, Nielsen and Mintel)
  • Use consumer and market insights to develop marketing plans to drive customer profitability, innovation, brand development




For the right candidate this represents an outstanding opportunity to join a high profile business which is continually developing and offers a challenging and rewarding working environment

Company

With an enviable client list of blue chip FMCG businesses, Better Placed focuses on the recruitment of Sales and Marketing professionals across the UK. Working from offices in Leeds and Manchester, our team of highly experienced Consultants have built relationships with a wide range of companies in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands as well as elsewhere in the UK.

In many cases we are preferred supplier to these businesses operating on an exclusive basis. We operate at all levels from graduate through to Director and our team are widely acknowledged as specialists in their chosen vertical markets.At Better Placed we focus on our candidates as much as our clients and we understand that failure to do so will slow the rapid growth that we have seen since our inception in 2002. Our track record of maintaining long term relationships with both candidates and clients is testament to how seriously we take this and is a fundamental part of what we stand for.

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