Junior Category Manager
- Employer
- Advocate Group
- Location
- London (2 days on the office, 3 days WFH)
- Salary
- up to £37k and £4k bonus
- Closing date
- 11 Jun 2021
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management, Marketing, Sales
Job Details
Are you a Category Executive or Category Analyst looking to make the transition in to a Junior Category Manager role?
Are you looking for more face time with customers? Does the sound of having two customer accounts to assist with the growth sound appealing?
My client has a core range of brands that are strong challengers in their sector in the UK, in addition to having access to further global brands that will be introduced to the UK when the timing is right.
As an evolvement of the current Category team, there is a desire to bring in the newly created role to further develop the customer interaction of the Category team.
Key responsibilities will be:
Developing category-based relationships with retailers within the Grocery Multiples (specifically Morrison’s & Waitrose), Convenience & Online Channels
Provide the sales team with shopper and category insights to build strategic account plans
Provide the Marketing team with shopper and category insights to build strategic brand plans
Manage plant-based research hub
Managing agency workload priorities and insight sharing
Internal reporting
About you:
You will be either a Category Executive, Junior Category Manager or Category Analyst
Experience of using Kantar, IRI & Nielsen
Ideally you will have customer facing experience, even if limited. This is an area when you will 100% grown and develop.
If you are looking for your next step or simply would like to be a bigger cog in the wheel, this opportunity will allow you to play a key part in this sloe-knit Category team
Company
We are a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. Brand advocate representation, with a focus on inclusive hiring, is central to our ethos and ethics.
As talent partner to some of the most exciting global names, innovators, and challenger brands, we have a proven track record of not only sourcing top talent, but improving employer brand, candidate journey, and talent acquisition strategies. Our specialist consultants plug directly into your brand to act as your talent team, or work alongside your existing talent function.
Being consumer product-centric means that our candidate and client partners can draw on our deep networks, proven processes, and highly trained talent specialists.
Our aim is to: identify, engage, assess, and provide exceptional consumer product talent, always with the candidate journey at the forefront of mind.
What Do We Offer?
- 3:1 interview-to-placement ratio.
That means that, for every three candidates we have out on interview, one is getting the job.
- 96% employee retention.
Our retention rate is market leading – 96% of the people that we place are still with that organisation at least 12 months later.
- 92% right-first-time shortlists.
Of the placements we make in roles that we work exclusively (which is the vast majority), 92% are hired from our hired from our first shortlist.
- 28 days average time to hire.
From briefing to offer, our average turnaround time is 28 days.
Our Recruitment Solutions:
Search & Selection | Project Recruitment | Embedded Talent | Executive Search | Contract Recruitment | Market Mapping
Contact Us Today to Discuss Your Next Recruitment Project:
📞 0333 772 7200
📩 workwithus@advocate-group.co.uk
💻 https://www.advocate-group.co.uk/
- Website
- http://www.advocate-group.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0333 772 7200
- Location
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The Advocate Group
No. 1 Spinningfields, WeWork
Quay Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3JE
GB
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