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• Location: Home Counties
• Sector: Food and drink
• Salary: £35000 - £40000

Category Manager - £35,000 - £40,000 + car and bonus - Based Hayes or Leeds (home based)

Heinz is a much loved brand that resonates with most families today. With four consecutive years of strong growth Heinz are investing in the business and accelerating momentum into 2010. Heinz is the brand that UK consumers feel most passionate about, this is the organisation that gives you the opportunity to work with trusted brands and the organisation that will offer the real development for your career. If you are looking to develop your skill set in a business that will provide you with the breadth and depth of experience, Heinz is the answer. To enhance your commercial ability and leadership potential IT HAS TO BE HEINZ.

What the job entails

This role is all about providing real Category Thought Leadership and aligning it with retailers' commercial objectives. It means you'll need to shape and develop strong, long-lasting trust-based relationships that hold up outside of the commercial discussion and decision-making process.

Above all, you'll build sustainable and profitable category growth that exceeds market forecasts, and sits alongside retailers' own category development goals. This is about championing Heinz and helping us to increase our market share.

Who we're looking for

A role like this takes more than just great customer-facing skills. You need plenty of category analysis management experience too, and ideally knowledge of AC Nielson, IRI and TNS.

You will be analytical, but also be commercially sound.

Your background will be in another retail and consumer-focused industry, and you'll be up to speed on Retail Link and other relevant syndicated data. More than that, you can turn data into insight, insight into actionable recommendations, and actionable recommendations into results.

Your background will be in a high caliber branded FMCG business and you will be up to speed on data manipulation. We'll also be looking for a knowledge of grocery retailers from working in a customer facing role, we need of MS Office and space planning software excellent communication and influencing skills and a real flair for analysis.

A bit about Heinz

As a brand, Heinz needs little introduction. But what you might not be aware of is our approach to business. Because we believe in adopting an intense customer focus, we're driving innovation and developing our existing products in all sorts of original and interesting ways. It means we're set to launch major new initiatives with our products and brands. The challenges won't stop there though.

We're going to invest even more in our people. As well as honing the expertise we've already got on board, we're looking to attract a whole new pool of talent to Heinz. That way, we can keep the way we do things just as fresh as our products.

Contact

Sarah Brennan on 0845 4379770

Reference

SB/10106/7

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