Commercial / Planning Manager

6 days ago


St Albans Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Premier Foods Full time

Premier Foods is one of Britains biggest listed food companies, employing over 4,000 colleagues at 15 manufacturing sites and offices up and down the country. Many of our brands have been part of UK life for more than a century and youll find them in 94% of British households.
At Premier foods we believe in inclusion, authenticity and individuality. We are looking for a Commercial Planning Manager Category Expansion to join our dynamic team. Your role is to drive commercial growth within the Frozen category and unlock the strategic Category Expansion growth opportunities across all channels. A key commercial leadership role working within the CP&E team and reporting to the Snr Commercial Planning Manager for Breakfast, this role is primarily focussed on Category Expansion. Your day-to-day activities will include business partnering with relevant stakeholders to achieve internal and external (non-Breakfast) Category Expansion objectives including Turnover, Profit, Innovation, and market share.
To excel in this role, you'll need to be agile. This role requires an individual who is a champion of fresh ideas. Working with a team of Account Managers, Marketing teams, and across the broader supply chain (Demand planning / FGM's etc) you'll be instrumental in leading our Category Expansion growth opportunities.
Joining Premier Foods, you'll be helping us to aim higher and be part of our plans to achieve market share growth. Your future will be working for a business that champions fresh ideas. At Premier Foods, we believe in challenging each other to live our shared values day by day. Our shared values give us a common framework for decisions and help guide us in the way we do things.
Responsible for working cross functionally with all Commercial teams to develop brand & channel strategies to deliver budgeted sales, profit and NPD targets.
Develop, agree, drive execution of promotional strategy and guidelines across all Category Expansion brands in all channels.
Improve promotional return on investment for brands category.
Analyse and review business forecast & key issues in business planning process influencing Customer teams to drive outperformance.
Design of pack, price & promotional architecture relevant Frozen and Chilled brands.
Accountable for the commercialisation of relevant NPD including pricing, promotional support and ensuring execution through the sales team achieving objectives.
Ensure Sales and Customer strategies are integrated into brand plans by influencing Brand Directors.
Accountable for creating the sell stories / decks for NPD for all channels for Category Expansion brands (not writing every page but ensuring it meets the needs of the business)
As a Commercial Planning Manager - Category Expansion, you are a confident decision maker, and you would enjoy being motivated by the challenge of leading across multiple stakeholders at senior level. Here at Premier Foods, our mission is to respect and encourage one another. Our purpose is to enrich life through food. By continuing to enrich the lives of our consumers and our colleagues as well as the planet we live on, we can nurture our business effectively and sustainably, and look forward to many more years of healthy growth ahead of us. We are a leading food manufacturing business.
This is a chance for you to excel in a dynamic role. In summary, this role is instrumental in driving strategic growth opportunities. People stay with our business because of our shared values. Our shared values are the DNA of our business and act as our moral compass helping guide us in the way we do things. Bonus
Company Car Allowance
Company Pension
Holiday Purchase Scheme
Hybrid working
Private Medical Insurance



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