Category Manager

6 hours ago


United Kingdom Mackenzie Jones Full time €7,000

Senior Category Manager FMCG – Food
Maidenhead ( or Leigh, Manchester with regular travel to Maidenhead )
Salary – competitive ( depending on experience) plus car allowance & bonus

A global food company renowned for its amazing culture is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Category Manager.

In this pivotal role, you will drive category engagement with major supermarket customers while elevating the company's internal focus on the category agenda. You'll take the lead in crafting and executing a winning strategy that fosters sustainable, long-term growth and boosts market share.

A critical aspect of the role involves close collaboration with brand teams to ensure that brand strategies and activations are optimized to deliver significant category growth.

Owning and developing powerful category partnerships with customers to identify and action opportunities for growth, demonstrating a clear understanding of how retailers operate and comprehensive buyer understanding.
Leading category reviews, including online. Knowing your data sets and the category, the macro trends & putting the customer and shopper at the heart of all category activity. Challenging the Status Quo and bring a fresh perspective / new ideas
Represent the category & retailer perspective in the development of brand strategy, NPD and portfolio management to deliver category value & sustainable growth
Develop powerful partnerships with Sales & Marketing in order to influence & shape the development & execution of customer account strategies to ensure mutual growth

Internal: Wide range of stakeholders across sales, brand, shopper marketing, demand planning, and finance

Category management experience in an FMCG environment
The ability to work with complex data and be able to develop compelling, high impact stories to positively influence others
Competitive – depending on experience
~ Car allowance of £7k per annum
~ Private healthcare with BUPA
~ Contributory Company Pension Plan
~25 days annual leave plus eight bank hols



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