Category Manager - Innovative category
- Employer
- Better Placed Recruitment
- Location
- Northallerton
- Salary
- £45000 - £50000 per annum
- Closing date
- 10 Oct 2017
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management
Job Details
- High Performing Category Manager
- Innovative Category
About Our Client:
A large Yorkshire based FMCG organisation which is well known for its established quality brands worldwide. This organisation has a very consumer centric approach to its market and has vision and strategic direction at the heart of the company. This is an opportunity to work for a truly global and dynamic organisation who are category leaders across the board.
Job Description:
The Category Management role for this Yorkshire based FMCG company has the following key purposes:
- To provide the strategic framework for the UK Category Management function, including the definition of future category management strategy and resource prioritisation for the company's brands within the major and assigned customers
- To identify and leverage strategic and tactical business opportunities for own account responsibilities through interrogation and interpretation of sales and shopper information in order to gain competitive advantage through insights
Role requirement:
The successful applicant for this Category Management role must have had Category Management experience within the FMCG sector and as well as having a business or marketing related degree, be able to demonstrate a good understanding of Category Optimisation in all of the following areas:
- Category Strategy
- Sales Development
- Retailer Strategy
- Excellence at Point of Purchase - Merchandising
- Category Projects
- Category Evaluation and Reviewing
- Business Planning
- New Product Launches
- Customer Relationships
What's on Offer:
up to £50,000 + Car Allowance + Bonus
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.
- Website
- http://www.betterplaced.com/
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