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Category Manager with Commercial Flair

Employer
Catman Jobs
Location
Berkshire
Salary
Competitive to attract the best
Closing date
24 Nov 2018

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

Job Details

The Company

One of the UK’s foremost and leading bakery companies are currently recruiting for a Category Manager at their Berkshire Head Office. This is a fantastic opportunity for a resourceful and commercially minded individual within the FMCG arena to play an important role as part of a forward thinking business.

They are a progressive and ambitious food manufacturer, part of a major international business, and responsible for the development of some of the best known grocery brands in the UK. 

The Role

This is a hands-on customer facing role and a key part of the company’s Category function. Reporting to the Category Controller, you will be responsible for developing and delivering category visions within retail customers, ensuring alignment with sales and brand strategy while delivering commercial value, measured by net sales and gross contributions. You will be expected to develop effective business relationships with retail customers, carry out range, space, and promotional performance analyses and recommendations, providing expertise and category leadership across all bakery categories.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will be degree educated with significant experience in a fast-paced Category / Product Management environment, ideally within the food industry. An understanding of continuous research data warehouses such as Nielsen will be required as will excellent presentation skills and a demonstrable track record working with leading retailers.

You will have a strong commercial awareness, and must be able to demonstrate a proven track record of improving sales and profitability. You will be a flexible and adaptable individual with excellent communication and organisational skills.

The job will suit candidates with the following backgrounds: Category Manager, Product Manager, Product Assistant, Category Assistant, Buyer, Channel Manager, Brand Manager, Brand Assistant, Sales Manager, Retail Manager, Retail Marketing Executive, Retail Buyer.

Paul Nyman Consultancy specialise in FMCG Sales jobs, Marketing jobs, NPD jobs, Technical jobs & Category jobs across the UK.

Company

Catmanjob.com was created in 2006 as a specialist division specifically supporting category, shopper and net revenue professionals.  The brain child of Paul Nyman who realised at the time “we just didn’t know enough about category management and how it affects a business”.  Catmanjobs operates as a division of  Paul Nyman Consultancy, which was established in 2004 to support wider FMCG recruitment markets, after Paul was made redundant, and toured the UK recruitment market seeking employment to pay the mortgage.

During this journey he identified some of the most important characteristics for job seekers hunting for a new role:

  • Understand what  I, as a candidate can do.
  • Honestly tell me why I cannot perform in the role I applied for.
  • Know how your clients can advance my career.
  • Get back to me.
  • Don’t BS me. 

These have become entwined in the approach the team at Paul Nyman Consultancy take to support individuals achieve career success across the UK and Europe.

We offer not just recruitment, but wider career support and development through workshops which include national and international recruitment and development experience.

Not just a recruiter.

We enjoy being career developers.

Company info
Website
Telephone
07956 029 624
Location
Paul Nyman Consultancy
Waterside
Old Boston Road
Wetherby
West Yorkshire
LS22 5NB
United Kingdom

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