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Uk & International Category Manager (s)

Employer
Lime + Fire
Location
UK Role; office based - East Anglia/Cambridgeshire, International role; home based
Salary
circa £35k plus benefits
Closing date
13 Aug 2017

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

Job Details

This organisation is a market leading and instantly recognised ambient food brand with a turnover well in excess of £100m. They have an excellent reputation in the industry for speed of decision making, pace, flexibility and making things happen. Financially strong, which has led to a recent acquisition, and further investment planned, this is an exciting time to join the business along with a number of exec members and play a key role in delivering a highly ambitious but achievable growth target, whilst having a lot of fun along the way. This organisation suits a classically trained blue chip operator who is ready to make a move into a slightly smaller environment that is not constrained by process and bureaucracy, but still work with industry leaders and supported by an already successful brand.

To further develop a robust category team which can be the driving force of the business, we are looking to appoint two category managers to the team. Reporting to the Head of category, one role will focus on a number of UK Grocery and Impulse customers, the second focusing on European customers. These roles will play an important role in delivering the long term ambitions of the business, and creating a strategic thinking positive and insight led category team. Working closely with your customers and the internal sales and marketing teams, your role will be to provide thought leadership from a shopper and category perspective, utilising Nielsen and IRI data to create meaningful action plans to accelerate growth, and develop resource to support the commercial proposition.

You will be a data focused category management professional, with classical training in a leading blue chip food/fmcg business, with experience of working with Nielsen data. You will be analytical in mind, but also be capable of building strong relationships, and have the confidence and capability to build long lasting relationships to add value to key customers. You must be a positive thinker, and someone who can use their insight and experience to create winning solutions, and be prepared to take assumptive risks where appropriate. You do not need international experience for the international role, but you will need to draw upon your understanding of the retail sector to add value to their European customer base. This business truly gives someone responsibility and you must be able to work autonomously, utilizing data and resources and building great relationships to add value to the commercial business unit.

Company

Lime and Fire is a specialist recruitment business focused on the food and drink sector in the UK and Europe. Truly partnering with our clients, we work in tandem to identify and secure top industry talent that gives our partners the competitive edge. 

Our clients range from global leaders manufacturing some of the world’s most iconic brands to highly innovative and dynamic startups and SME’s, all of which value our experience, honesty and commitment. 

We passionately believe about providing a high level of service, and place a particularly high value on finding not only professionals that have the right skills, but compliment the culture and the mission of our clients. We recognise every individual is different, but the right combination of these individual elements is what creates winning teams and businesses.

Company info
Telephone
07736470906
Location
4 Congreve Approach
Bardsey
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS17 9BN
GB

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