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FMCG Category Manager - Top Four Account

Employer
Better Placed Recruitment
Location
West London
Salary
£40000 - £50000 per annum + car allowance + bonus
Closing date
21 Jul 2017

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

Job Details



This is a critical Category Manager role for a top global FMCG business with market leading brands based in West London. You'd be working on the most important top four account in the biggest and fastest growing division in what must be the most diverse and challenging role in the Category team.

Your key accountabilities will range across customer management, category vision and cross functional team working and will include:
  • Co-building a category strategy with the customer
  • Building strong relationships with stakeholders, working in collaboration and driving the action plan
  • Preparing and presenting insightful category stories and recommendations
  • Working in advance with retailers to run range review processes across all their formats
  • Growing distribution and share of shelf to the benefit of the customer
  • Analysing the results of range reviews and the impact in the category
  • Leading Category Education projects internally and externally
  • Supporting your Lead Category Manager with projects aligned to Category Vision and in reaching total Grocery objectives
  • Playing a role in internal business forums, contributing category insight, helping to shape the thinking and deliver business targets




You'll have a minimum of three years experience working in category on one of the top four retailers and experience using a number of data sources such as IRI/Nielsen, Dunnhumby, Self Serve. You'll need to be a great relationship builder with a high level of resilience and an ability to gain traction with customers and influence and mobilise stakeholders. You will have a high level of numeracy and will be able to find actionable insights from data. You'll be a team player who takes initiative with a proactive, high energy but balanced and realistic approach.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take on a key role at an FMCG business with absolutely top brands, based in a fantastic location with smart offices, a flexible approach, and a fast paced and commercial yet very people-focused culture. A lovely place to work and a great business to develop your career.

Better Placed Recruitment job reference: 24414

Due to the high volumes of responses we get, regrettably we are only able to respond to successful applications. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

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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