Category Controller (12 Month FTC)
- Employer
- Greencore Group
- Location
- Sheffield
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 9 Jul 2019
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management, Marketing, Sales
Job Details
On a 12 Month FTC - We have the opportunity for you to join our Prepared Meals division as a Category Controller
You will manage and focus on leading the development of our team's strategy and vision .
You will utilise customer and consumer insight, strategic recommendations and action plans to improve category performance across chilled food.
You will lead the ongoing relationship with with our key accounts to provide a strong point of contact, ensuring consistency and communication as you’ll be presenting your recommendations and future plans on a regular basis, engaging with our customers and delivering compelling category stories..
You will identify and develop Category plans and propositions in line with customers requirements whilst analysing and interpreting category reports to generate actionable insight which will improve overall business and customer performance.
Main responsibilities
- Develop and deliver tailored collaborative category plans across a number of key retail partners.
- Devise and execute retailer specific research programmes and market activations
- Implements and develops robust category processes
- Build and maintain mid-level relationships within retail partners to develop truly collaborative partnerships
- Champion implementation of Greencore’s ‘Fixture of the Future’ category vision across our retailer base and within Greencore itself
- Partners with account level Development teams to ensure insight is correctly used to build bespoke long-term product plans
- Manage and develop self-contained team of category managers in order to deliver category plans for customers and maintain fit for purpose structure and skill set.
Ideal candidate
- Broad knowledge of the Food to Go market in particular Chilled Food
- Experience in category marketing role including sourcing and use of multiple data source and research
- Ideally Top Four Retailer Customer exposure or worked with Chilled Food Categories
- Experience of managing a team of marketing managers
- Leadership and inter-personal skills
- Numerical and problem solving
- Business and commercial acumen
- Analytical mind with a curious nature and numerically strong
- Advanced presentation and powerpoint skills
About the company
Greencore Group is a fast growing, international convenience food leader, having doubled our sales over the past 5 years. We’re looking for passionate, talented people who can help us to drive our future success. People who innovate, create, lead and inspire. We set the bar high, and expect that our people do too.
We value our people and we expect our people to work the Greencore Way (check out our LinkedIn page or https://www.greencore.com/about-us/the-greencore-way for more information on this)
If you think you have what it takes to make a career out of your passion for food, apply now!
Company
Greencore Group is a leading international manufacturer of convenience foods. Our ambition doesn't stop at being the world’s largest sandwich producer; we’re looking for passionate, talented people who can help us to drive our future success. People who innovate, create, lead and inspire. We set the bar high, and expect that our people do too.
- Website
- http://www.greencore.com/
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