Category Insights Manager

1 week ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom GIG Retail Full time

We have a fantastic opportunity for a
Category Insights Manager to join our team, working with a major supermarket chain.

**Category Insights Manager
Leeds LS10 1LJ**-
Full Time, Permanent:

  • £30,000
  • £37,000 dependent on experience:

  • Monday to Friday, 9.00am
  • 5.00pm

Please Note:
Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK

At GIG Retail, we provide expert retail strategy to a range of high-profile clients.

We help to drive brand and retailer sales by creating, delivering and evaluating customer-focused campaigns, across a host of retail-focused marketing and sales activity.


About the Role:


You will join a new team dedicated to being a one stop shop for all category & media insight for GIG and our client, a major supermarket chain.


Specialise in a trading area, you will ensure a full understanding of all media and trading activity within your category and be able to translate the data into meaningful insight and strategy for our client, GIG & suppliers.

The insights will be used toinform category strategy, category marketing campaigns and shape future supplier proposals.

This role will work closely with the category account management teams, the client's category lead and category planners.

Reporting to the Head of Insights, you will:

  • Support the sales team in growing supplier media spend, by providing data led insight context to the performance of category and supplier media activity with actionable insight recommendations.
  • Interpret aggregated data to create compelling category and supplier insight reviews.
  • Generate case studies, cross category and calendar event performance reports as well as supporting thought leadership pieces
  • Support post campaign analytics by adding insight value to observations & recommendations.
  • Play an active role in internal and external media review meetings
  • Deliver outstanding client service
  • Build relationships with internal trading teams, providing trusted advisory on insight and provide recommendations to assist media plans

Experience and Knowledge:

  • Relevant industry experience, ideally within insights or category management (retailer, agency or supplier) or with project/account management/planning
  • Ability to interpret data and manipulate it
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills
  • Experience with Media Data highly desirable
  • Ideally, degree educated

Key skills:

- _Resilience_ - coping well with extreme pressure, pace and ambiguity and learning with client contacts
- _Client impact_ - demonstrate credibility and gravitas to engage with the client at category/supplier strategy level
- _Robust_ - being able to process a large amount of different information to deliver a robust and insightful perspective

About You:

  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Customerled viewpoint and insight focus
  • Able to use data to tell a compelling story
  • Excellent Excel and PowerPoint
  • High degree of numeracy

Benefits:

  • Company bonus
  • Matched contributary company pension
  • Death in service
  • 27 days holiday
  • 27 Days Holiday plus Additional Leave Options i.e. days off for birthdays

How to apply:

You must be eligible to work in the UK. No agencies please.
Suitable skills and experience includes Customer Planning, Project Management, Sales, Retail, Marketing, Marketing Manager, Digital Marketing, Marketing Assistant, Marketing Executive, Marketing Jobs Leeds
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