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Interim Category Manager

Employer
Better Placed Recruitment
Location
England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
21 Aug 2018

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Business Sector
Non Food & Drink
Contract Type
Contract
Hours
Full Time
Function
Category Management

Job Details



Our client is one the North Wests biggest and brightest FMCG businesses, a truly global operation with Category leading products and ambitious growth plans. An opportunity for an experienced and success driven Interim Category Manager has arisen within their Category Management Function.



Reporting into the Category Controller the role of Category Manager is responsible for the development and implementation of a continuous data strategy to deliver brand insights that are able to gain a competitive advantage.

  • Propose optimum spend of continuous data budget to deliver data requirements across the business, maintaining and managing the budget.
  • Proactive generation of actionable recommendations from category, brand and customer insights.
  • Maximise ROI of data budget through contract negotiation and data usage improvements.
  • Management of data agency relationships to ensure accurate, quality databases delivered on time, innovative and insightful reporting techniques and best practice ways of working.
  • Lead external agencies and internal teams on annual presentations / workshops delivering insights and ROI.
  • Update, maintain and review brand scorecards for monthly meetings, driving external insights and ensuring accurate and up to date NPD trackers by brand. Providing monthly brand share deck to the UK business providing brand overview and insights.




The ideal candidate will have around five years Category experience gained in an FMCG setting, experience gained in a UK market is essential. You will be of graduate calibre with a track record of delivering results in a highly focussed commercial environment. You must have strong presentation and commercial skills and be proficient with continuous data sets such as Nielsen, Kantar and Dunnhumby to deliver quality actionable insight.

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.

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