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Senior Category Manager

Employer
Refresco
Location
Kegworth
Salary
Circa £55,000 per annum dependent on experience and qualifications
Closing date
19 Jun 2018

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

About the Role

The Senior Category Manager provides critical business and market insights in to the soft drink categories for external and internal customers, including the UK Leadership Team and the wider Commercial team.
You will direct the Category Management function within Refresco UK and lead the management and development of category strategies, insights and tactics within the business.
You report to the Head of Marketing and are responsible for two direct reports.

The main responsibilities of the Senior Category Manager are:

To use your category expertise and insight to influence the development of strategic business opportunities and assist with the creation of a long-term, profitable UK business.

To advise on whether to enter new markets and also provide rationale for capital expenditure.

To influence the commercial team to achieve the most effective and profitable product and customer portfolio.

To influence the Marketing and Development teams to concentrate their resources on creating the most profitable and differentiated product mix for Refresco UK.

To work with local and global flavour houses and influence their agendas to deliver first to market solutions to Refresco UK.

To demonstrate best in class category insight, strategies and recommendations with the largest UK grocery retailers and maintain Refresco UK reputation as the industry experts.

To translate group category management strategy, insights and plans into a category management plan for the UK market.

To manage and develop the European Nielsen soft drinks database to deliver best in class European soft drinks category data reporting. 

To strengthen existing and establish new relationships with key customers and provide a crucial & consistent link between the businesses.

About You

As a Senior Category Manager at Refresco you will require a proven track record of category product management and you will be a category consumer and insight specialist within the FMCG industry, preferably the food and drinks manufacturing sector. You will have operated at a senior management level and you will have Brand and Private Label exposure. You will need significant customer management experience.

Ideally educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, you will have strong analytical skills, able to interpret data and have excellent presentation skills for both internal and external customers at all levels.
You will have excellent written and verbal communication ability enabling you to influence at all levels and build and sustain internal working relationships.
You will be a highly motivated, proactive self-starter with a very professional attitude and able to work in a team, sharing ideas, and best practices, or on your own.
There will be some travel with overnight stays as and when required.

About Us

Our drinks on every table. That's our vision. So, yes, it's safe to say we're ambitious. We're thirsty for more, constantly looking to the future. To new products, new services, new markets, new customers. Through our people applying our core values of ‘Responsible’, ‘Entrepreneurial’, ‘Excellent’, ‘Market Driven’ and ‘Innovative’ we have grown substantially since 1999 and we will continue to be successful.

Refresco UK
In the UK, the Refresco headquarters are based in Kegworth, Derbyshire, and we employ 1800 people across 6 sites (Bridgwater, Kegworth, Nelson, Bondgate, Wrexham & Macduff). We work with all the leading UK retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison's, Sainsbury, ALDI and Lidl to produce their private labels and with branded customers such as Innocent, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. We have packaging capability in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET and Cans.

Refresco Group
Our head office is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Refresco is the world’s largest independent bottler soft drinks and fruit juices for retailers and branded customers. With production in Europe, North America and Mexico our global sourcing and local R&D capabilities offer an almost unlimited variety of products, manufactured to customer specifications and requirements.
Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from 100% fruit juices, vegetable juices, nectars, water and water +, carbonated soft drinks, energy and sports drinks, seasonal and speciality drinks and ready to drink tea, in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans and glass packaging.
In addition to the efficiency of our bottling processes, we can also provide our customers with total supply chain solutions – from planning and sourcing of raw materials and packaging through to warehousing and transportation.
We are able to develop new concepts and bring these to market in an extremely short time frame.
Refresco operates in Europe & North America:
12 billion litres
3.6 billion Euros revenue ($US 4 billion) - 2016
345 m Euros profit ($US 382 million) – 2016
9,500 people
12 countries
59 production facilities

Salary & Benefits

The salary for this role is circa £55,000 per annum dependent on experience and qualifications. We also offer an annual bonus incentive and a good company pension scheme.
Car allowance and Private Healthcare for self & family are also included.

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