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Senior / Category Manager

Employer
Better Placed Recruitment
Location
England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
Salary
Benefits
Closing date
15 Sep 2017

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

Job Details



Our client is not only a global, blue chip FMCG business with an enviable portfolio of successful brands; they also have an excellent reputation as a forward thinking and dynamic business. Our clients approach to business is driven by a continual pursuit of excellence across all business functions, as a result of their expansion plans an unrivalled opportunity for a Senior Category Manager has arisen.

Reporting into the Category Controller, this role sits within a commercial team and will provide a full Category Management service to the National Account teams across all account formats including digital.

Responsibilities

* Leverage category knowledge and expertise to gain and maintain Category Captaincy as a competitive advantage. Deliver all range updates/reviews to 'best in class' standard.
* Create and manage an annual Category Management plan.
* Ensure the optimal fixture is deployed in the retail customer aligned to you and support the deployment across the total trade.
* Ensure all internal & external stakeholders have access to top-line category reporting.
* Provide a flexible 'expert' resource across total trade irrespective of which account aligned to.
* Have a 'customer is king' attitude.
* Be the expert on all things to do with the retail customer you are assigned, leveraging all available data sources.
* Support and implement category management training to all customer facing sales teams.

The ideal candidate will have both national account management and category management experience, gained in an FMCG setting. Your category management experience will be with a major grocery retail customer and you will also be a proficient manager of continuous data sets. Field sales or field sales management experience is also of interest.

Excellent communication, leadership and influencing skills are essential, along with experience of working within a team environment. Your determination and willingness to continually learn will be complimented by your proven record of demonstrating initiative and delivering results.

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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