Senior Category Manager

4 weeks ago

Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom Brakes Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Category Manager - Meat & Poultry to join our Merchandising team on a full-time, permanent basis, reporting into the Head of Merchandising. As the Senior Category Manager – Meat & Poultry, you will be responsible for developing and delivering a category plan that supports range development and delivers in-year margin budget. This includes range management, including NPD, promotions, cross-sell, customer marketing activity, and pricing. You will also be responsible for delivering and evaluating brilliant category insight of total performance. Additionally, you will own category presence in all customer and sales communications, including online, to raise the profile of the category internally and externally.

This role would suit a candidate with rounded commercial experience within a Head Office Retail, Foodservice, or a blue-chip food manufacturer environment. You will ideally be located in the Southeast/London and will need flexibility for team and supplier meetings across the UK. A full, clean driving licence is required.

Key Responsibilities
  • Using customer, market, and supplier insight for category performance analysis. Focus the wider category team to create a strategy to meet in-year sales and cash margin targets.
  • Review and analyse category performance each month, adapting the category strategy and marketing plan to maximise opportunities and presenting to the wider team.
  • Own and activate all in-year deliverables, including range plan, NPD with gap analysis and activation/growth levers.
  • Project manage Sysco 6 Stage Category Management programme.
  • Run promotions and implement intelligent pricing recommendations to protect existing business and grow new opportunities.
  • Support delivery of strategic priorities such as Brakes Essentials, Sysco premium, and partnership with Sysco Subsidiary companies Fresh Direct & Kff.
  • Develop strategic relationships with partner suppliers, to drive growth and support margin investment opportunities across range, promotions, and marketing plans.
  • Manage the yearly marketing plan for the category, including supplier activation.
  • Supporting corporate sustainability policy, ensuring that all opportunities for recognition with accreditation bodies are realised Red Tractor and supporting business initiatives such as transition to higher welfare chicken.
  • Present to and train the sales teams on category knowledge and key strategic messages.
  • Ownership of category data, ensuring internal and external facing content is accurate. E-List, new product launches, discontinuations, marketing descriptions, and website.
About You

The successful candidate will be results-based with a demonstrated track record of applying financial, commercial, or procurement skills to a range of business-related objectives, such as delivering cost savings or enhancing the quality of services provided to businesses. A high level of commercial ability is crucial for the role, combined with relevant commercial sourcing and/or category experience across a choice of categories and having experience of driving sales and margin. Ideally, you will have experience with customers and internal insight and data analytics to make fact-based decisions and create effective customer offerings. Be comfortable using consumer insights, competitive assessment, pricing, promotional planning, and financial analysis. You must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, including Excel, (VLOOKUP, Formula, Pivot Tables) and PowerPoint, and have experience of using Tableau. It is desirable for candidates to hold a professional Qualification in Marketing, Category Management, Merchandising, or CIPS.

What You Will Receive
  • A competitive salary
  • Company car allowance of £7,000
  • Pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Single private medical healthcare cover
  • Generous holiday allowance of 25 days + bank holidays, with option to purchase additional holidays
  • Huge discounts on all sorts of lovely food and award-winning products through our staff shop
  • Discounts on Cinema tickets, shopping, and earn cashback on purchases through Sysco benefits portal
  • Recognition awards and Incentives
  • Real career opportunities - being part of Sysco, the world's leading foodservice business, opens a world of possibility
Additional Information

At Brakes, everyone is welcome. We don't want you to 'fit our culture' we want you to help define it and we actively celebrate the unique talents of each and every colleague. We don't just look at your CV, we're more focused on who you are and your potential. As part of our values, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone has a voice, is appreciated, and has the same opportunities. We work hard to ensure that everyone feels part of our business, as we care for one another and connect the world through food and trusted partnerships. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that everyone belongs and thrives at Brakes and we recognise that Brakes can only thrive when everyone feels they belong. We'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our resourcing team who will be happy to support you.

Brakes

Built on a passion for food and feeding the nation, we are the UK's largest foodservice supplier. Every day Brakes deliver the highest quality fresh and frozen food and ingredients from our nationwide network of distribution centres to some of the nation's most famous pubs and restaurants, as well as schools, caterers, care homes, and hospitals. Our customers depend on us, and our 8,000-strong workforce is dedicated and proud to be part of this vital provision. And we're growing

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