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Category Manager

Employer
Essity
Location
Manchester
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
16 Nov 2017

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

Category Manager

Overview

Essity is a leading Global hygiene and health company that develops, produces and sells Personal Care, Consumer Tissue and Professional Hygiene products and solutions in approximately 150 countries.

We are the world’s second largest supplier of consumer tissue, which includes toilet paper, kitchen towel, facial tissues, handkerchiefs and napkins from brands such as Cushelle, Velvet, and Plenty. Additionally, our range of Consumer Goods brands in the UK and ROI include the global number 1 brand for Bladder weakness – TENA, and pioneering menstrual hygiene brand Bodyform.

We have our headquarters in Stockholm, and our UK and ROI Consumer Goods sales and marketing team is based at Manchester Airport. More information at www.essity.com.

We have an opportunity for a Category Manager to join us working with one of the top 4 major multiples working within the UK Customer Marketing Department. In this role, you will deliver the UK Category Management objectives for your assigned retailers by building strong relationships with our customers to improve their category performance whilst ensuring Essity deliver on our objectives.

Main Tasks

  • Help deploy the category vision and identify relevant category opportunities for growth Have the tools in place to develop these appropriately to build an agreed category growth strategy with your customers
  • Deliver range reviews to assigned customers, utilising Category Management as an everyday way of working both internally and externally
  • Provide customer data based insight to steer and support new product development and positioning, range management, as well as
  • identifying clear and achievable opportunities
  • Be the shopper expert and build shopper metrics into your recommendations aligned to your customer category strategy
  • Cascade monthly reports tracking the market, brands, channel and retailer performance, causes and effects to your customers & key Essity
  • stakeholders. Provide actionable recommendations for corrective action or optimisation versus targets
  • Analyse promotions for assigned customers and report findings with recommended actions
  • Develop trusted category relationships within your customer across the functions and channels
  • Be part of a cross functional Brand Working Group focused on monitoring, measuring vs targets and also identifying opportunities as part of the team

Key Competencies

  • Degree education or equivalent with at least three years’ experience in Category Management
  • Experience of IRI/ Nielsen/ Kantar databases with Dunnhumby an advantage
  • Range review and merchandising skills
  • Able to develop and deploy category strategies
  • Strong data analysis skills and the ability to summarise effectively with recommendations
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Customer focused and proactive approach to work
  • Good understanding of the retail market
  • Understanding of shopper / customer insight

Additional Information

Essity at a glance

Essity

Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company that develops, produces and sells Personal Care (Baby Care, Feminine Care, Incontinence Products and Medical Solutions), Consumer Tissue and Professional Hygiene products and solutions. Our vision is; Dedicated to improving wellbeing through leading hygiene and health solutions. Sales are conducted in approximately 150 countries under many strong brands, including the leading global brands TENA and Tork, and other brands, such as Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, Vinda and Zewa.

Essity has about 48,000 employees and net sales in 2016 amounted to approximately SEK 101bn (EUR 10.7bn). The business operations are based on a sustainable business model with focus on value creation for people and nature. The company has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Essity used to be part of the SCA Group. More information at www.essity.com.

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