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Category Manager - Top 4 Grocery Focus - High Profile

Employer
CSG
Location
Buckinghamshire
Salary
Base Salary of up to £48,000 + car allowance + extensive benefits package
Closing date
24 Apr 2017

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

Job Details

Our client is a well-known food manufacturing business who is experiencing huge growth within the categories in which they operate. They have a great reputation and are expanding their product range through market leading innovation.

With supply across the Grocery retailers and foodservice, this Category Manager role will focus on their largest account with a Top 4 retailer and the aim is to drive profitable sales growth. The business has committed to developing their Category team and you can expect to receive all the help and support that you need to enhance your career.

To be successful in this role you will need:

  • Prior experience of working within an FMCG food manufacturing environment as a Category Manager.
  • The ability to analyse data sources to gather insights and trends in order to make category recommendations and create a Category strategy.
  • Develop Category plans and Category performance review.
  • Capable of identifying new business opportunities and monitoring implemented category initiatives.
  • Track retailer promotions and analyse success for future promotional strategy development.
  • Able to build strong relationships throughout the buying function with the retailer to drive category objectives.
  • Capable of working within a fast paced food manufacturing environment an d achieve deadlines.
  • Strong influencing skills.
  • Work closely with the commercial and NPD teams to ensure that opportunities are delivered to agreed timescales.

This is a real opportunity to develop your career and will offer a real challenge to the right person.

Please apply, with a full CV, for a confidential discussion about the role to:

andrea.forton@csgtalent.com

Company

Established in 2003, the Combined Selection Group source the world’s best talent for clients in over 50 countries globally, offering recruitment solutions in permanent, contract and executive search.

Operating from 10 international offices with regional hubs across the UK, EMEA, US & ASIAPAC.

Our Vision is to be the first and continuous choice, when managing both our clients’ global talent needs and candidates' long term careers.

Focusing on six major Practice areas of Built Environment, Consumer, Energy, Health & Social Care, Industrial Technology and Life Science sectors.

The company was formed in 2003 and in 2015 a rebrand brought together six previously separate recruitment brands (Blue Marble, BW Penman, Core Consulting, Core Care, Rilwood Associates and Whiterock Executive) under one new brand, CSG – The Global Talent Experts.

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