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Category Manager

Employer
Jarlett de Grouchy
Location
South East England
Salary
£45000 - £62000 per annum + car, bonus, healthcare, pension
Closing date
7 Apr 2017

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

Job Details

As a Category Manager you'll be tasked with providing customer & category insight to enhance and maintain an already strong category relationship with one of our key grocery customers. You will support the commercialisation of the client's brands and innovation and will have significant interaction with External Customers, Internal Sales team and the business.

Specifically you will:

-Lead the development and delivery of an annual category plan.
-Identify & clearly define key category and customer issues and opportunities and generate the insight needed to resolve.
-Establish new & build on existing relationships with the customer, with the aim of moving us towards indispensable partner status to drive category, customer & UK growth.
-Act as an integral partner to internal sales team by providing category and customer insight that helps shape strategies & tactics.
-Contribute to overall Grocery Shopper team agenda and vision cross category.

Job Requirements:

-Proven category experience with knowledge of category management principles, broad commercial experience and knowledge of the UK FMCG market (Grocery experience preferable but not essential)
-Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesise and integrate learning from multiple sources and see the connections in data, trends and events to generate insights
-Ability to build and maintain lasting relationships, influence internal and external stakeholders and work in a collaborative manner
-Ability to present internally and externally to all levels and builds compelling arguments using data and insight
-Proven ability to work as part of a team

Company

J-DEG are a sales and marketing recruitment agency specialising in the FMCG sector. Our team combines of 30 years experience working within this sector, and we are proud to be recruitment partners to some of the UK's most prestigeous consumer businesses.

Our specialist knowledge and expertise, combined with a passion for our industry, will help you to discover your next exciting career move or newest team member.

We specialise in the following roles:

  •          Sales
  •          Marketing
  •          Category
  •          Insight and Research
  •          Shopper

Stay up to speed with the UK's most exciting and exclusive roles! Register your CV to enquiries@jdeg.co.uk or submit your enquiry by clicking here and one of our specialists will be in touch.

Company info
Location
8-9 Stephen Mews
Fitrovia
W1T 1AF
GB

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