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Senior Category Manager

Employer
Better Placed Recruitment
Location
Leicester
Salary
£50000 - £55000 per annum + Package
Closing date
15 May 2017

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

Job Details



About Our Client:

A large Midlands based FMCG organisation are now recruiting for a Senior Category Manager. You will be given the opportunity to develop the strategic direction of their Tesco account in conjunction with the Head of Category. The role will offer ownership of the "front of store" category and the successful candidate will help grow this further and help drive forward the client relationship.

This organisation has a very consumer centric approach to its market and has vision and strategic direction at the heart of the company. This is an opportunity to work for a truly dynamic organisation with room to progress for the right candidate.

Job Description:
  • Ownership of Ranging strategies and principles
  • Ownership of Space strategies and principles
  • Ownership of Category Strategy for Front of store
  • Ownership of Milestone 6 - Review of launches
  • Drive In store Marketing Strategy and recommendations to Tesco
  • Driver of category content for monthly team meeting with 'so what'
  • Ownership of 'Category Story' for total business monthly meeting - working with Senior Insights Manager
  • Provide the right input from category in a concise, punchy presentation
  • Provide challenge to team ensure we unearth the 'so what'
  • Ensure virtual team stay true to the insight throughout the development and execution process
  • Drive a step change to deliver the 'so what' from the data and provide a concise, easy to understand presentation
  • Budget ownership for all continuous data bought for category
  • Innovation days, market trawls, on trend visits e.g body coach, food bloggers




Role requirement:

The successful applicant for this Senior Category Management role must have had Category Management experience within the FMCG sector and as well as having a business or marketing related degree. Must have experience using Kantar, Nielsen, IRI or Dunnhumphy

What's on Offer:

£50,000 - £55,000 + competitive benefits package.

Company

With an enviable client list of blue chip FMCG businesses, Better Placed focuses on the recruitment of Sales and Marketing professionals across the UK. Working from offices in Leeds and Manchester, our team of highly experienced Consultants have built relationships with a wide range of companies in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands as well as elsewhere in the UK.

In many cases we are preferred supplier to these businesses operating on an exclusive basis. We operate at all levels from graduate through to Director and our team are widely acknowledged as specialists in their chosen vertical markets.At Better Placed we focus on our candidates as much as our clients and we understand that failure to do so will slow the rapid growth that we have seen since our inception in 2002. Our track record of maintaining long term relationships with both candidates and clients is testament to how seriously we take this and is a fundamental part of what we stand for.

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