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Category Manager / Midlands / Successful Food Manufacturer / c£40,000 + Excellent Package

Employer
DR Newitt
Location
Midlands
Salary
c£40,000 + £5,500 car allowance + bonus + Excellent Package
Closing date
7 Mar 2017

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

Job Details

My client is a highly successful food manufacturer supplying branded product into major retailers, looking for a talented Category Manager to join their team. The ideal candidate will have experience with Kantar, Neilson, Dunnhumby or IRI within the FMCG sector.

The Role:

  • Working in alignment with the Category team, provide recommendations to retailers with regards to optimum range, pricing, promotions, merchandising and innovation
  • Build relationships with retailer contacts and drive existing and new business across the retail trade
  • Create the innovation pipeline for the brand and provide category inputs and trade selling story
  • Build and execute the brands’ category plan alongside the Sales team
  • Work with the marketing team to identify and execute category opportunities
  • To support Marketing and Sales in the annual brand and account planning processes
  • Develop category tools
  • Champion and be the voice of the brands’ shopper both internally and externally through the development of category stories shared via one page summaries

The Candidate:

  • 3+ years of FMCG experience
  • Negotiation skills
  • Knowledge of joint business planning
  • Knowledge of shopper marketing processes
  • Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills
  • Graduate calibre
  • Highly numerate
  • Advanced use of ACN, Kantar, DunnHumby & IRI analytical tools
  • Commercially aware – previous experience in commercial dept
  • Strong presentational skills
  • Strong analytical skills & proven ability to deliver actionable insight
  • Able to articulate data concepts to a non-expert audience

What’s On Offer:

c£40,000 + £5,500 car allowance + bonus + Excellent Package

Company

D R Newitt are Food, Drink and FMCG recruitment specialists providing permanent and interim recruitment services: 

We offer Headhunting, Search & Selection and Advertising services across the following disciplines:
•    Sales
•    Marketing and Category
•    Executive
•    Supply Chain / Buying
•    Technical / Quality
•    NPD / Process / Development Chefs
•    Operations / Manufacturing
•    Engineering
•    HR and Finance

To enquire about a specific role or to have a confidential discussion about your career path, call or email us:

  • Edinburgh Office 0131 226 5060 
  • Manchester Office 0161 833 0181

Register@drnewitt.com

Company info
Website
Telephone
0131 226 5060
Location
38 Melville Street
Edinburgh
Midlothian
EH3 7HA
United Kingdom

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