Category Manager

A fantastic opportunity to work for one of Britain's largest chilled food manufacturers has arisen. They need an experienced Category Manager to take the lead in providing insight and category management for the company.

Role Responsibilities:

• Use insight data to develop category plans
• Ensure consumer, market and customer insights are used to demonstrate our category knowledge and understanding, leading our customers thinking to drive joint growth.
• Driving forward agreed customer plans, the successful individual will promote best practice and adopt a category approach, providing analysis on promotions, advertising growth trends
• Undertake market visits to understand customer needs and opportunities, reporting findings back to the category, commercial and NPD teams

Candidate Profile:

• Strong analytical skills having worked in a Category management position previously
• Experience of using agency data such as Nielsen, Kantar, Dunnhumby
• Be able to communicate complex data to internal and external stakeholders
• Effectively influence colleagues and customers like and be a key team player