Category Manager - Innovative category
- Employer
- Better Placed Recruitment
- Location
- Leeds
- Salary
- £45000 - £50000 per annum + Car Allowance
- Closing date
- 6 Mar 2018
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management
Job Details
Category Manager
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Category Manager to join an exciting FMCG business based in East Yorkshire managing grocer multiple accounts. The business is an established food manufacturer with a wide portfolio of own label products.
The ideal candidate will be a tenacious, self starting individual with previous experience in a customer facing role. You will be able to build and deliver sound Category Strategies based on consumer/shopper insights ensuring growth for key customers. In addition you will lead category change and create a vision for the category moving forward.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage the annual category plan to execute the category vision and promotional strategies.
- Identify and manage customer specific category initiatives and projects to increase sales and profitability.
- Using available data sources (Kantar, EPOS, & Gap) analyse the sales uplift by promotions along with shopper KPI dynamics and shopper profile changes.
- Lead and deliver the range, seasonal review and gap analysis processes with customers.
- Range management.
- Category performance tracking.
The Requirements:
- Previous Category Management experience working within a retailer facing role.
- Educated to degree level or the equivalent.
- Experience of managing a small team would be desirable.
- Expert user of Nielsen / IRI and Kantar databases.
- Results driven and self-motivated.
- Excellent communication, analytical and presentation skills.
- Strong relationship builder.
You will be a career minded, high calibre Category Manager with a full understanding of the category management and range review process. The role is ideally suited to a candidate with a keen eye for detail coupled with a sharp analytical mind.
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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