Category Manager

3 weeks ago


West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Alexander Steele Recruitment Full time

Working with our client on an exciting opportunity to work for a market-leading household food brand + own label food manufacturer.


Retail Customer focused

Leeds- Hybrid working

Salary up to £50K (DOE)


Key Responsibilities:

  • Driving customer & category strategies to influence the key category levers such as range, merchandising and pricing & promotionst.
  • Delivering expertise on the market, category and shopper to identify risks and opportunities for customers and the business to deliver category growth.
  • Collaborating with cross functional internal and external customer teams, ensuring insights are at the heart of all decision making and initiatives, including the innovation pipeline.
  • Working collaboratively with the commercial and brand team, providing insight into market activity and enabling specific recommendations based on highlighted trends.
  • Analysing NPD launches and activity, making recommendations for future innovation and activation.
  • Conducting regular store visits and collating key market insight including promotions, merchandising changes, NPD and cross category insight.
  • Creating reports and performing market audits to assist in category and business growth.


Key Skills:

The ideal candidate will have the following:

  • 4 years of previous experience in a Category Management role within FMCG.
  • Excellent data interpretation and analysis skills, with the aptitude to pull out key insights and actionable recommendations.
  • Expert knowledge of market data platforms such as Nielsen and Kantar.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong working relationships both internally and externally.
  • Ability to present in an engaging manner to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Highly proficient user of Excel and PowerPoint to manipulate and present data.
  • Ability to multitask and work well both independently and as part of a team.


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