Category Executive (High Customer Contact- Grocery)

 Who We Are:

Would You like to work for one of the Top 10 Brands in the UK?

YouGov BrandIndex’s top UK brands in 2015!

We’re a unique Yorkshire family business and are one of the country’s most respected tea and coffee merchants.  Taylors blends Yorkshire Tea as well as Taylors market leading roast and ground coffees, and a range of speciality teas; the Yorkshire Tea brand itself has doubled in size over the last 10 years and is en-route to be the number 2 Tea Brand in the UK. 

This continuing growth has enabled us to strengthen our senior marketing & sales teams with incremental external talent from a variety of blue chip branded organisations.  The Group is heavily values driven with high levels of staff engagement and retention which means we are fortunate to have a large number of long serving employees.  Our business is guided by a set of principles which we call:

The Six Ps – Prosperity, People, Planet, Product, Passion and Process. Quite simply these principles underpin everything we do.

Successful & Sustainable growth means that we are now seeking to appoint a Category Executive- (High Customer Contact- Grocery) Are you ready to be part of the story?

The Role

This exciting role will report directly to the Head of Category & Shopper Marketing. This reflects the importance of the role to the business & its Customers- Fundamentals will be:

• Customer Facing Responsibility- The role will see you work closely with Customer Buying Teams and related functions. Within this remit you must have the ability to influence, advise and drive a proactive solution focused approach. 
• Turning data into insight to make recommendations to help shape Taylors and retailer strategies and action plans.
• Acting as the first point of contact for data requests and insights on matters relating to the development of the hot drinks category.
• Using Category Insight feed into recommendations on current and future range and mix.
• Support the business with relevant category data & insight led recommendations.
• Creating monthly, weekly and adhoc reports for informing management reports and retailer category performance (Kantar/ IRI/ Him data).
• Potential to assist with trade media advertising for the convenience channel.

Values & Behaviours

• Robust and demonstrate a strength in times of change, ambiguity and adversity.
• Willing to challenge ideas and respond positively to challenges of others.
• Display Self Awareness & Emotional Intelligence. This business is Not about simply “getting a result”, it’s also about “How” your deliver the result- both for your colleagues internally & customers externally.
• Action Focused & Driven to make it happen!

In Return

New people joining us comment on the feel of the place, the warmth of the welcome, and the care that we take to ensure that they are able to understand and embrace our culture. We value our people, and the personal skills, experience and qualities that they bring.  Indeed history has shown us that your career development could come from one of several areas:

• Development within Shopper/Category Marketing (as We sustainably grow the Business)
• Movement into National Accounts (UK &/Or International)
• Brand Marketing

This is one of the key reasons people tend to stay with us for a long time. We believe in developing people as individuals and we provide learning and personal development opportunities for the collaborative and peer-based working that is becoming a signature of our workplace culture.

Candidate Requirements

We are seeking the Highest Calibre of candidates with relevant experience.  Within this remit we are open to candidates from the following fields:

• Category Management & Customer Marketing
• Commercial/National Accounts (this could be at Key Account Management, NAE or even Regional Account Management level)
• Retail Side Candidates (Buying, Marketing, Category etc)
• Shopper Marketing

With all the above you Must Actively Enjoy Being with Customers as much as analysing the data/Insight.

As a person you will have demonstrably high levels of empathy, resilience and tenacity, as well as a naturally collaborative, optimistic, ‘WE can do it’ attitude.

Please Note: We have chosen to work exclusively with Category Captain; therefore we kindly ask that other recruiters respect our decision and do not contact us in relation to this role. Thank You.