Category Manager - Food

A superb opportunity to join an FMCG brand and private label business dedicated to the continued positive disruption of their category through the strength of commercial category insight & recommendation.

Client Details

A dynamic, fast paced and "politic" free, branded & private FMCG business. An established household brand across ambient & chilled, dedicated to the continued growth of the business, brand, private label offering across the retailer landscape.

Description

The Category Management Team is viewed as key to the delivery of ambitious growth plans and to developing future agenda. This role is critical in allowing the business to demonstrate their knowledge and leadership across both ambient & chilled categories and to drive the development of progressive & successful partnerships with the retailers.

Main tasks:

To enhance, progress and leverage our Category relationships with major Grocery customers.

• Deliver credible, insight led & actionable recommendations to support the growth of the category, customer & the business
• Advise retailers through key decision making periods, effectively influencing range, space and distribution decisions
• Ensure that a comprehensive category approach is taken in consideration of both brand and retailer brand

To work in collaboration with Marketing to:

• Provide the external perspective the business on the consumer, shopper, retailer and competitor landscape across the categories, developing relevant knowledge
• Identify key questions & challenges for the category or business
• Support the development of consumer/shopper & category centric NPD & initiatives

Work with the Head of Category to develop and embed category visions, drivers and strategies both internally & externally.

Profile

The successful candidate will have the ambition to make a significant contribution to the future success of the business. You'll thrive in fast paced, action orientated environments and relish new challenges, managing multiple priorities and working collaboratively with their colleagues to deliver a shared goal.

Skills:

• Knowledgeable in FMCG category management principles
• Commercial aware with an understanding on the impact of delivering a solid category agenda
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills
• Ability to make insight simple, actionable and compelling
• Able to manage short term deliverables in parallel to developing long term strategic thinking
• Able to build positive internal & external collaborative working relationships
• Working knowledge of Circana / Nielsen, Kantar & Dunhumby

The Individual:

• An dynamic and creative FMCG Category Manager with analytical integrity
• Forward thinking and proactive
• Had a natural curiosity to look beyond the brief & beyond the data, asking why?
• Happy to have an opinion, to challenge and to be challenged

** You must be able to access W. London daily **

Job Offer

Highly competitive package including car allowance.

Head office in bustling Hammersmith - you must be able to access daily