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Category & Insight Lead

Employer
Advocate Group
Location
Buckinghamshire
Salary
up-to £70k and package including bonus and car allowance
Closing date
6 Aug 2021

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

Job Details

Do you have a passion for Category and Insight?  Do you enjoy taking the lead in key strategic Retail relationships, including three of the big four food multiples.  Do you take pride in developing junior members of your team?  If this answers are yes then I have an amazing opportunity for you!
Partnering with a growing specialist food brand that have gone from strength to strength, with a Turnover exceeding £30 million, international sales in over 20 countries and over 35% market share in the UK.  
With an ethos of performance and accountability, and a culture described as passionate, team focused and open, this is a great brand to be with. 

About the role:
You’ll be one of the businesses experts in the historic market data and understanding what is driving performance, in order to recommend to both retailers and the business what we should do with range, fixture, price and promotions to unlock future growth.  This role requires you to get stuck into detailed data analysis, and then step back to see the big picture and work out what needs to be done 
You will need to build and maintain strong relationships with key buyers and merchandising contacts in order for them to trust and implement your recommendations
You’ll provide lots of analysis and insight for the Commercial team to take directly to retailers 
You’ll be taking on some monthly reporting responsibility to ensure everyone internally understands all of the categories that we operate in and to enable the business to make strategic decisions based on data.

About you:
•    Experience at data analysis and shaping this analysis into actionable insights. We’d love someone who can help to train and coach the rest of the business to make the best possible use of our data and insights, so being self-sufficient when it comes to understanding the data will be key. We like to get straight to the point so the capacity draw conclusions and recommendations is fundamental. 

•    Excellent communication skills, in particular presentation skills

•    Ability to build and develop great relationships with our buyers and merchandising contacts as a trusted expert

•    Able to prioritise quickly in a fast moving, entrepreneurial environment 

•    Other essential requirements for this Category and Insight Lead role:

•    Previous experience of working in FMCG, ideally in Category Management or Insights either client or agency side

•    Experience using data providers like Nielsen, IRI, Kantar, Dunhumby or Aimia

If you are looking for your next challenge within Category, this role can offer a genuine opportunity to further develop in to a more senior leadership role medium term

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/

Company info
Website
Telephone
0333 772 7200
Location
The Advocate Group
No. 1 Spinningfields, WeWork
Quay Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3JE
GB

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