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Category Manager

Employer
Better Placed Recruitment
Location
England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
Salary
£competitive
Closing date
20 Feb 2019

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

Job Details



Our client is a global consumer goods powerhouse with an attractive brand portfolio that is comprised of household name brands. An exciting new opportunity has arisen in the EMEA marketing team for a Category Manager to work cross functionally to develop and deploy tools for growth to all EMEA markets.

Reporting to the Senior Shopper Marketing Manager this Category Manager role requires someone who is comfortable developing commercial recommendations based on sound consumer, competitor and category analysis. You be an expert in data manipulation with the ability to identify and recommend strategies that enable the business to develop strong brand and product innovation stories that allow the sales team to optimise distribution and on shelf presence. You will be tasked with creating best in class trade sell in materials, merchandising solutions and assets, taking an Omni-channel approach to growing categories.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced category manager. If you also have marketing communications or trade marketing experience it would be an advantage. You will be comfortable with data such as GFK, Nielsen and Kantar and will have the marketing know-how to turn the data into a compelling category selling story. This would suit someone looking to move from a pure category management role into a more marketing led category role. For a confident self starter with a breadth of commercial and marketing experience this could be a great opportunity to stretch into a bigger role in a global marketing setting.

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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