Category Manager / Food Manufacturing / East of England / £40k + package.

Our client is a globally successful food business. The business has been established for over 70 years and they have a proud heritage and history.

They manufacture an exciting range of high quality branded food products for the UK’s major retailers.

The business is always growing and expanding and there is an exciting vacancy within their commercial team.

The Role

Category Manager

Accountable to:                          Marketing Director

Main Purpose of the Job:         

The Category Manager is responsible for managing category strategy and proposition development for a specific product category. Developing the product portfolio, they own range performance analysis across the market to identify business development opportunities, consumer insight and market research for each category and produce clearly defined ranges for each, with a rolling development pipeline. They are also responsible for identifying new customer & business development opportunities and defining the optimal category and brand propositions to take to market for securing incremental business.

Key Responsibilities:
 

• Defining product & brand development strategies for the specific product category.
• Proactively develop opportunity based propositions based on customer and consumer insight and supplier capabilities, liaising with stakeholders to bring propositions to market.
• Using EPOS, Dunnhumby, Kantar & trading data to deliver consumer insight and track performance across the market to identify development opportunities.
• Use research and performance analysis to determine category strategy and present internally & externally for projects with customers, stakeholders & suppliers.
• Develop engaging business development presentations, supported by strong category, customer and consumer insights to drive customer centered new category development.
• Support the leadership and commercial teams with category knowledge, ensuring that an accurate view of the market is represented in business development discussions.
• To create & maintain a database of meaningful market and competitor data analysis in line with medium and long term business plans and strategic aims of the company.

Regular category reviews, product portfolios and targeted propositions as well as leading proposition development projects and bringing them to market on time and to budget

The Candidate

• Category Management experience.
• Food or fmcg experience.
• Exposure to major retail customers.
• Familiarity with marketing data systems.

What's on Offer

• £40k + car allow + bonus + benefits.

If you are interested in this position then please forward a copy of your most up to date CV to greg@drnewitt.com or contact Greg Carroll on 0131 226 5060.