Category Executive

2 weeks ago

St Albans, United Kingdom Premier Foods Full time

Company description:
Premier Foods is one of Britain’s 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 you’ll find them in 94%of British households.
At Premier foods we believe in inclusion, authenticity and individuality. We aim to ensure all existing and potential colleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to work no matterwho they are, what they look like, who they love or what they believe in. Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.

Job description:
**Category Executive**

**Full time, permanent**

**Based in St Albans / Hybrid**

**Role purpose**:
Deliver sustainable Category Value and Volume growth & out-performance for Premier Foods within your customer.

Build relationships with customer team - buyers and merchandisers to ensure we are partners of choice.

Balance workload and priorities between customer focussed support and supporting our internal strategy work to drive long term plans.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Build strong relationships with customer contacts, supporting with proactive analysis and actionable insights.
- Work closely with the sales commercial team and account category teams to ensure they are armed with the relevant category insights and recommendations.
- Develop objective space to sales recommendations and ensure this is aligned to range review objectives and Category Vision growth opportunities.
- Become an expert with retailer specific software programmes creating actionable insight and concise reports for both buyers and Premier Foods Account Managers.
- Measure and track Premier Foods share of shelf and check variance to fair share by means of identifying opportunities.
- Capture evidence & evaluate customer’s activation of key Events i.e. Christmas, Easter, etc.
- Use Kantar, IRI & other sources to pull comprehensive analysis on customer performance.
- Balance priorities to ensure that the key category challenges are being met for both Premier Foods and for your customer.
- Build close relationships with your account contacts to allow for a 121 relationship outside of formal meetings and updates

**What we need from you**:

- An ability to connect multiple insights and thread together compelling business cases without over complicating the story
- Understanding how category decisions impact commercial performance.
- Excellent excel skills (pivot tables/v look ups) and numerically competent.
- Understanding data sources & data analysis: ability to know which continuous and ad hoc data sources to use where appropriate, and use the latest tools competently and effectively to source information accurately and quickly.
- Ability/scope to clearly articulate and land key messages (written and oral) flexing style accordingly and comfortable presenting to senior audiences.
- Ability to build relationships across internal and external teams and influence effectively. In particular to work as part of a virtual team to support each other and gain category insights across retailers.

**What we offer you in return**:

- Competitive salary
- Up to 7.5% pension
- Life assurance
- 25 days holiday (option to buy an additional 10)
- Wide range of online and in-house training
- Access to an employee discount scheme, with access to hundreds of nationwide retailers

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