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Senior Category Development Manager

Employer
Heineken
Location
Field Based (either London or Edinburgh office 3 days per week)
Salary
Competitive salary based on experience plus bonus & benefits
Closing date
9 Jan 2017

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

Senior Category Development Manager
 
PRIDE IN WHO WE ARE, PASSION FOR WHAT WE DO
 
We’re proud to be the UK’s leading cider, beer and pub business.  With over 2,000 colleagues employed across the UK, we offer fantastic opportunities for people with talent and drive.  From brewing to sales and marketing, from logistics to finance, IT and HR - there’s much more to our business than you might imagine.

Our unrivalled portfolio of brands includes Foster’s, Strongbow, John Smith’s, Bulmers, Desperados and of course the world-renowned Heineken®.  And, with 1200 pubs, we’re one of the UK’s leading leased pub businesses. 
We’ve ambitious goals.  And we know it’s the expertise and enthusiasm of our people that fuels our growth.  Right now we’re looking for an outstanding Senior Category Development Manager to join our team. 
 
The Role

Our Category & Shopper Marketing Team has achieved its ambition to become the UK’s number one team - holding the top spot in the Advantage Group Survey for 3 years in a row, but it doesn’t end there. Our customers have come to value our ability to develop targeted category strategies and tactics enabling them to deliver a brilliant market leading approach, so you’ll be integral to this on-going success.
 
In this role you’ll deliver the HEINEKEN UK category strategy to a key off Trade customer. You’ll work collaboratively with the central HEINEKEN UK category team to ensure that customer and shopper dynamics are utilised and work with trading teams to drive promotional effectiveness.
 
With the customer at the heart of everything we do, you’ll understand their needs by engaging in a multi-level customer contact strategy to embed the category agenda and from there deliver category performance reviews with trade representing the category agenda in joint customer planning days.
 
To be successful in this role you’ll be passionate about sharing the category story drawing on your category, portfolio & brand understanding as well as route to market and channel activation planning experience. Leadership experience would be highly beneficial as you’ll be responsible for leading and coaching one direct report. You’ll demonstrate experience in marketing, sales or an off trade role with some brand or customer facing experience an asset.
 
Next Steps
 
If this sounds like a journey you’d like to join, we’d love to hear from you. 
Closing date 23 December 2016

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