Category Manager

Category Manager

c£55,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Portsmouth

Join a fast-paced, professional and dynamic FMCG manufacturing business

The role

- Responsible for driving profitable category growth and market share for specific products through relevant category initiatives
- Work with NPD and decide which products are made and launched - the full category management cycle
- Develop the categories by ensuring the correct consumer offering through working closely with the customers and internal business teams. 
- Day to day exposure with customers
- Use market behaviour knowledge and align this to customer and company strategies.
- Apply consumer and category data to contribute to planning and the business teams

You

- Experience of category or merchandising management within the FMCG manufacturing industry. 
- Experience of working with one of the major multiples is ideal.
- Ability to work with data 
- Great ability to identify business opportunities through the effective utilisation of data. 

You could be working in a category or merchandising team and be looking for the next step in your career or already have Category Management experience. There is some UK travel in this role. This is a highly visible role in a competent team and comes with real decision making authority.