Category Manager

4 weeks ago

Uxbridge, United Kingdom Mackenzie Jones Full time

Category Manager - wholesale

FMCG – Drinks

6 months FTC

📍Hybrid - 2 days a week in Stockley Park, Hayes, Uxbridge

Up to £60k (depending on experience) per annum plus car allowance & bonus pro rata.


The opportunity:


A global drinks brand with an amazing culture and fabulous range of brands is looking for a Category Manager for their wholesale customers, who can bring their analytical skills to identify opportunities and risks for their customers and business plus utilise the category vision to be the champion of the shopper and influence change.


What will my key accountabilities be?


  • Identifying category growth opportunities and threats for their customers and brands
  • Building strategic external relationships with key wholesale customers
  • Creating solid, credible internal relationships with commercial and brand colleagues
  • Using a range of qual and quant data to deliver rounding insight and recommendations.
  • Tailoring the category strategy with their customers to engage and deliver long-term scalable competitive advantage and growth.
  • Implement and deliver strategic, category-focused projects, e.g. deep dives into promotions, underperforming segments, range, and space optimisation.
  • Support business planning by defining core ranges, SKU optimisation, and review and course correction of NPD and core.
  • Supporting selling stories into our customers with strong category rationale


Who will I be working with?


Customers, Brand team, Sales Colleagues and Field Sales teams



A great candidate will have:


  • Category Leadership experience ( 2+ years ) gained in the FMCG sector
  • The ability to turn macro, category, shopper and consumer data into actionable insight
  • Strong Analytical skills
  • Abllity to learn and extract actionable insight from a number of data sources e.g Nielson,iRi, Kantar, Mintel, Aimia, Dunnhumby, Sales out
  • Leadership of projects across multiple teams
  • Yatte Minahare ( Go for it ) sprit and an entrepreneurial flare
  • Growth mindset
  • An opinion, and you want to share it .. in the right way of course


In return for everything you can bring, the business can offer you :


  • Up to £60k, depending on experience.
  • £6k Car Allowance – pro rata
  • 12 % Bonus pro rata
  • 26 days holiday, plus bank hols.
  • Hybrid working model – 2 days in the Stockley Park office and 3 days at home or out with customers
  • Aviva Pension scheme
  • Plus others


The Process? 🚦


Apply today with your most up-to-date CV to Rachael.Walsh@mackenziejones.co.uk


First stage – 1hr interview conducted by hiring manager and a colleague via Microsoft Teams


Second Stage – 1hr interview to be conducted by hiring manager and a colleague – face to face

task & competency based questions– exploring candidates strengths, development areas & ambitions


🤝 People are at the heart of everything we do. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process that means people can be their best authentic self. 🤝


We would love to reply to all applications, regrettably we are unable to do so due to the high volumes we receive, so if you do not hear back within 14 days unfortunately on this role it won’t be progressing. It is possible that the position could be in the process of closing, so chalk it up to bad timing. But, have no fear There will be more opportunities. Follow us at Mackenzie Jones Recruitment so you don’t miss them.

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