Indirect Category Manager

7 days ago


Greater Manchester, United Kingdom The Oval Partnership Full time

Reporting to the Head of Category & working closely with both the NPD & Commercial teams, the Category Manager will be required to be office based for 2 to 3 days per week.



Manage key accounts with regular client meetings to drive category growth.
Build and sustain relationships with key retail contacts across multiple channels.
Work closely with Sales & Product Development teams to provide regular insights and trend updates.
Use a variety of customer research tools to evaluate commercial and development ideas with consumers.
Regular visits to stores to asses’ customers fixtures and ranging, feeding back any recommendations around price, promotion, and positioning.
Previous Category Management experience (ideally within Private Label FMCG (Food))
Previous customer facing experience & a history of relationship building.
A natural passion for food and product trends, inquisitive about customer behaviour and strong presentation skills.
Previous experience of using Kantar / Neilsen & EPOS data is necessary.
Experience of using multiple data points to build insightful and compelling stories to rationalise a variety of key business decisions.



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