Senior Category Development Manager - Grocery
- Employer
- Vertical Advantage
- Location
- Surrey
- Salary
- £40000 - £50000 per annum + car allowance + bonus + great benefits
- Closing date
- 23 Aug 2018
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management
Job Details
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Senior Category Manager - Grocery
Surrey
Reporting to the Category Controller and responsible for driving category growth within your designated retail customers.
Role
- Responsible for two of the largest retail customers in the business
- 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
Person
- Strong Category Management experience within the FMCG industry, and ideally within Food
- Excellent ability to 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.
- Grocery Retail Category experience
- Ability to be customer-facing and strong presentation skills
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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