Category Manager

3 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom JS3 Recruitment Ltd Full time

About the Role

Our client are looking for an experienced Category Manager who is available to join our team. We re offering you the opportunity to be part of an international and innovative health and hygiene company with market leading brands. In return, they would welcome your experience in analysing customer and shopper insights to continue with our category and retailer strategy across Major UK retailers. You would be joining a friendly, professional and committed marketing team based in Manchester.

This role is offered with a hybrid working pattern 3 days onsite, 2 days offsite, onsite days you will be based at our office in Didsbury, Manchester.

What You Will Do

This role is all about building strong, collaborative relationships with our internal stakeholders and customers. As a Category Manager you will help to deploy the category vision and identify relevant category opportunities for the business and your retailers. You will deliver range reviews with your customers and provide customer data-based insight to steer new product development and positioning, as well as identifying clear and achievable opportunities. You ll be the shopper expert and build shopper metrics into your recommendations aligned to our customer s category strategy.

Being insights driven you will cascade monthly reports tracking the market, brands, channel and retailer performance, causes and effects to your customers & key stakeholders. You ll be providing actionable recommendations for corrective action or optimisation versus targets.

Who You Are

So, what are we looking for?

You will need a great understanding of the retail market and have experience in managing insight and category management with customers in a FMCG environment. You will be naturally customer-focused and be able to demonstrate success stories with customers through your collaborative approach, data analysis skills and proactive approach.

Experience with IRI (Circana), Nielsen and Kantar databases is key. If you have also worked with Dunnhumby & SIP this would be an added bonus, but not essential. Able to develop and deploy category strategies.

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