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Category Manager

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• Location: South East
• Sector: Food and drink
• Salary: £40000 - £46000

Category Manager - Up to £46k + package - Home Counties

Our client is the UK's leading branded food manufacturer who operates across ambient, chilled and frozen. Many of their brands are currently achieving 20% YOY growth and their category and sales departments are being heavily invested in.

As a business they are able to offer you a high level of autonomy balanced with a team focussed culture. If you are looking for a role where you can make a big impact then this could be the one for you!

• Reporting directly to the Category Controller
• Responsible for developing the category strategy
• Reviewing category performance and Data Management - Ensuring that the category vision of segmentation is correctly represented in business reporting and across the data providers
• Understanding of Competitors in the category
• Developing NPD including Understanding and identifying opportunities and Developing category focused sell-in stories
• Delivering commercial propositions and identifying point of buying solutions

• You will have the ability to look at consumer needs as a source of inspiration, with proven sales and marketing experience and a track record of achievement.
• Your approach must be very analytical in order to influence the category agenda. 
• A forward thinking, flexible attitude is vital and you must have the drive and resilience to succeed and be able to work from you own initiative.
• You will have proven category management experience working within a branded FMCG business and will have ideally have experience of the grocery category.
• The role will involve cross functional team working therefore the ability to successfully develop and maintain relationships by adopting a collaborative working style is crucial.

If this sounds like you and you fancy a steep the challenge, please send your CV to me or call me for a confidential discussion. Please send your CV to me or call me for a confidential discussion. Visit our website for further opportunities www.workwithseven.com/jobs/

Contact

Stewart Wilson on 0845 4379770

Reference

sw/10214/7

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