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Category Development Manager - Grocery

Employer
Vertical Advantage
Location
Surrey
Salary
£35000 - £45000 per annum + car allowance + bonus + great benefits
Closing date
21 Mar 2018

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

Job Details



Category Development Manager - Grocery

Surrey

Reporting to the Category Controller and responsible for driving category growth within your designated retail customers.

Responsibilities Include:
  • Working on the roll-out of a new category strategy
  • Using data to create compelling category stories and persuasive arguments that support NPD listings and channel growth
  • Data source, extraction, distribution and creating presentations to distribute internally and externally
  • Generating market reviews for your customer
  • Working closely with Sales and Marketing to develop customer and market insights and grow the overall business and category
  • Compiling reports on data, trends, in-store checks, market reports and customer activity


Experience Required:
  • Category Management experience within the FMCG industry, and ideally within Food
  • Excellent ability analyse and manipulate data
  • Proficient user of dunnhumby
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Very good cross-functional management and able to demonstrate ability to collaborate with a wide range of functions.


This role will set the right person up for a fantastic career within the organisation

If you are interested - please apply!

The Vertical Advantage Sales Team specialise in opportunities within Sales, Category Management, MS&P / Revenue Growth and Trade & Shopper Marketing. If this role is not right for you but you are interested in finding your next career challenge, please call on 0207 438 1565.

Company

Vertical Advantage have a rich history in sourcing within the FMCG and Grocery marketplace. We specialise in placing candidates in the mid to senior end of the market within Category Management, National Accounts, Marketing, Supply Chain and Logistics.

We guarantee comprehensive support and expert guidance through professional consultants with proven track records from industry. At Vertical Advantage we are proud of how accomplished our people are and how they have built exceptional networks over their time in the recruitment sector. It is these networks that will give you confidence to work with us.

Our first instinct is to search and this is ingrained in the fabric of our work. We leave no stone unturned to deliver exceptional people for exceptional businesses. Our way of operating suits today's working lifestyle where people are short on time and need to make hiring decisions based on seeing low numbers of high calibre candidates.

Vertical Advantage is a lean, flexible consultancy that works with our clients and candidates to find the right solutions for them.

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