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Category Executive - Food - Retail Multiples

Employer
Ashwood Executive Search International
Location
Greater London / Home Counties
Salary
£32,000 - £38,000 + Car ( or allowance £5,000) + Benefits
Closing date
10 Aug 2018

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

Job Details

If you are a highly motivated and committed individual looking for an exciting new challenge working with iconic brands, this vital role as Category Executive  at one of the world's leading food manufacturers is the ideal position for you.

Reporting to the Category Controller, this position offers an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to significantly influence our client’s future, as well as greatly enhancing your career development and broadening your sales and marketing experience.

Working with some of the key decision makers in the sales and marketing business on a daily basis, you will help our client realise its vision to become the most trusted and respected category advisors. To achieve this, you will use your experience to help deliver sustainable growth for its categories and brands within by building strong relationships with customers and demonstrating consistent thought leadership of those categories. This includes creating joint Category plans that deliver outperformance for our customers and meet the needs of their shoppers.

Your additional responsibilities include:

  • Leading range and category performance reviews
  • Working to develop continuous reporting solutions for all customers, including category scorecards
  • Developing objective space to sales recommendations and ensuring this is aligned to range review objectives and Category Vision growth opportunities
  • Production of planograms using Planomaster / JDA.

To secure this fantastic opportunity:

You must be a passionate and focused individual with excellent experience of driving performance forward, as well as a natural ability to engage and influence. You must also possess a proven analytical track record of turning insight into action, plus outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written. An FMCG background building strong customer relationships is also a key requirement.

Interested? Ensure you don’t miss out by emailing your CV to our consultants at Ashwood Executive International

Company

At Ashwood Executive Search International we specialise in recruiting globally, from middle management positions to £six-figure executive assignments. Working primarily with FMCG organisations our clients range from high profile blue-chip companies to smaller niche and developing businesses. Our aim is to be viewed by clients as a world-class provider of the most talented people, while providing candidates with the very best advice, mentoring and coaching services to further their careers.

We have established an outstanding track-record providing Sales, Marketing, Category, Consumer Innovation, Technical, Manufacturing, HR and Supply Chain professionals. With a reputation for achieving excellent results, both for our clients and candidates, we strongly believe we can help you with your requirements. If you are a candidate this means we will work with you to find the ideal role to match your talents and aspirations. If you are a business it means we will apply our expertise and knowledge to source the most talented and culturally relevant people for your organisation.

Ashwood continues to grow and develop as we apply our unique methods and style of resourcing. With UK teams in Bracknell and London and operations in New York and Johannesburg, we provide clients with extensive worldwide coverage that is designed to deliver the top talent for their business.

Charity Partnership - Ashwood Executive Search International​ and Farm Africa 

Ashwood Executive Search International are pleased to announce that we will be extending our support of the charity Farm Africa for another year.

Our world is one of global connections and as a key player in the food industry, Ashwood is determined to play our part in ending one of the biggest challenges facing the world today; hunger. We are outraged that 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry every night and are determined to help create a different future for these 1 billion people.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+44 (0) 1344 206262
Location
Index House
Ascot
Berkshire
SL5 7ET
GB

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