Category Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Somerset
- Salary
- Relocation Package
- Closing date
- 26 Jan 2022
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management
Job Details
Manage the annual Retail Trading plan, continuously assessing and monitoring the performance of your Categories and products, using data and insight to highlight and act upon emerging themes to accelerate performance.
Constantly innovate your Category proposition, developing a compelling and market-leading pipeline of activity that delivers on our customer promises of Convenience, Value and Product Leadership.
Client Details
Home improvement leader for trade and retail customers across the UK and Europe. Double growth over the pandemic and looking to continue this growth emerging into new European markets.
Description
The key responsibilities of the Category Manager are:
- Constantly innovate your Category proposition, developing a compelling and market leading pipeline of activity that delivers on our customer promises of Convenience, Value and Product Leadership
- Work with key strategic suppliers to deliver long term growth and innovation
- Lead the integration of financial activities, including planning, forecasting and business analysis
- Initiate and lead the collaboration of diverse teams across the business
- Build and maintain relationships with strategic industry and cross-functional partners.
Profile
The successful Category Manager will be:
- Commercial experience either as a Buyer, Category Manager or similar from an FMCG background
- Have proven experience in leading a category strategy with a key understanding of how to access growth levers to deliver sales and margin growth.
- Experience of market trend and customer insight interpretation and analysis to deliver a market leading strategy
- Experience of leading range, price and promotional development
- Able to build successful relationships across a business and with suppliers to deliver growth
- Proven experience as a senior commercial operator or other relevant role
- Strategic thinker with long term strategic planning and tactical trading experience
- Experience of managing and developing your team, putting succession plans in place
- Excellent commercial acumen, project management, influencing and communication skills
- Proven financial management capability
Job Offer
On offer to the Category Manager is:
Very competitive salary with a car allowance and relocation package.
South England/Somerset office
Company
Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.
Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!
Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us
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