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Category Manager - Top 4 Grocery Accounts

Employer
HJ Human Capital Group
Location
South East
Salary
Basic Salary Circa: £45,000 – £55,000 + Bonus + Car/Allowance + Pension + Healthcare
Closing date
20 Jul 2017

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

Category Manager – Top 4 Grocery Accounts

Based: South East

Basic Salary Circa: £45,000 – £55,000 + Bonus + Car/Allowance + Pension + Healthcare

I am working with a global heavyweight blue chip FMCG business who are genuine industry leaders in their field. With genuine powerhouse household-favourite brands they operate across over 150 countries and are at the forefront of consumer goods innovation offering their employees tailored personal training and development plans.

They are looking for an ambitious Category Manager/Category Development/Insights Manager to join their Category leadership team and work with a portfolio of industry leading brands across a number of grocery accounts.

                                                                                                                                                                

The Role:

  • Support the development of category strategies and influence retailers to implement recommendations tailored to their specific needs.
  • Develop and deliver effective external category selling stories, tailored by customers as required, to support new category growth initiatives with key customers.
  • Create and agree activation plans for key initiatives including merchandising and promotion recommendations.
  • Monitor, evaluate and communicate changes in category, customer dynamics and competitor activities and recommend actions to address issues and opportunities affecting the category and/or the brands.
  • Recommend actions to address category or internal issues through influencing retailer partners.

The Requirements:

  • Ideally 3-5 years’ experience in a category or insights role or a closely related field within UK FMCG market.
  • Experience of working with at least one of the Top 4 retailers or Boots is essential – along with customer facing experience.
  • Educated to degree level, ideally in a sales/marketing or business focused degree.
  • Proactive, confident and highly collaborative with strong influencing and leadership skills.
  • Strong numerical, analytical and communication skills are essential as is the ability to use these skills in a high pressured environment.
  • The ability to develop relationships with internal and external customers.
  • Time management and project management skills coupled with the ability to influence others where necessary

If you are an ambitious and career-driven individual then please apply by sending your updated CV and package details

Hudson James Human Capital has recently acquired Vitae Selection creating one of the largest Internationally Consumer focused search firms in the North of England.

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