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Category Marketing Manager

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• Location: Yorkshire
• Sector: Food and drink
• Salary: £35000 - £38000

Category Marketing Manager - Up to £38,000 plus package and bonus - Yorkshire

This international branded company is going from strength to strength. 

With products on sale in hundreds of countries all over the world, the opportunities for progression here are endless.  Turnover of £215m in the UK alone and £60m within their chilled business, and in 40% growth, their brands are the fastest growing in their category and 2010 is the year of NPD.  It's a great time to join such an exciting company - are you what they're looking for?

The category Marketing Manager role is to develop strong and cohesive category rationale that supports the ongoing distribution and sales development of the chilled product range.   You will work with the Sales and Marketing teams to formulate account specific NPD execution plans and generate Trade Marketing initiatives aimed at delivering incremental Category Sales.   It will be the Trade Marketing Manager's responsibility to input into account planning, regarding range and distribution development including space management and promotional planning. You will also manage the formulation and presentation of market data including category insight to both internal and external key contacts within designated retail accounts.   As such, you will analyse and report findings of category wide initiatives and activities supported by insight and recommendations.  You will also have your own budget to manage.

To be successful in this role you will need to be of degree calibre or equivalent, commercially astute with a Sales/Marketing background within a branded FMCG environment and have a high level of analytical and data interpretation.  You will have demonstrable experience of a category management approach to sales within major retailers and must be IT literate (Microsoft Office), IRI & TNS database systems, Retail Link (Tesco/Asda) with strong negotiation and influencing skills and excellent organisation and time management.

If this sounds like you and you fancy a steep progression curve in your career, 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/10025/7

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