Category Manager Ftc

Why greencore?

We are a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We supply all the major supermarkets in the UK. We also supply convenience and travel retail outlets, discounters, coffee shops, foodservice, and other retailers. We have strong market positions in a range of categories including sandwiches, salads, sushi, chilled snacking, chilled ready meals, chilled soups and sauces, chilled quiche, ambient sauces and pickles, and frozen Yorkshire Puddings.
In FY22 we manufactured 795m sandwiches and other food to go products, 127m chilled prepared meals, and 249m bottles of cooking sauces, pickles, and condiments. We carry out more than 10,600 direct to store deliveries each day. We have 21 world-class manufacturing units across 16 locations in the UK, with industry-leading technology and supply chain capabilities. We generated revenues of £1.7bn in FY22 and employ approximately 14,000 people.
We work hard to ensure that Greencore is a great place to work, and our people truly are at the core. We're committed to ensuring all our colleagues have development plans and strive to provide inspiring leadership - in fact, in the past year we've seen an 11% increase in the number of colleagues who would recommend Greencore as a place to work.

Join us and be part of our great team!

We have an interim opportunity for a commercially savvy Category Manager to join us on a fixed term basis for six months.

What you'll be doing

As a Category Manager, your role will be to become a trusted advisor for our customer base by following the category management process to utilise customer and consumer data, to shape strategic recommendations and action plans to improve category performance and deliver on joint business plan targets.

• Build, analyse and interpret category reports to generate actionable insight which will improve business and customer category performance
• Utilise category insight from multiple data sources (internal company and retailer data, continuous data providers and broader market intelligence) to create strategies and plans which utilise the appropriate marketing mix to respond to the current category performance
• Present category recommendations to category peers within the customer organisation to influence their decision-making to adopt the strategies and plans
• Follow the retailers' cycles of the category marketing process to ensure that all plans have been correctly assessed, approved and implemented
• Manage the ongoing category relationship with the customer to provide a single point of contact to ensure consistency of communication
• Work with commercial team to feed in category plans enabling joined up/aligned and meaningful customer plans to be created
• Build extensive networks across merchandising, supply chain, marketing, store ops etc to speed decision-making/action implementation
• Input into process (from insight) from identifying opportunities through to developing shopper-led selling stories
• Develop a two to three-year vision and a roadmap of specific action for the categories

This role will require up to 1 day per week at one of our sites, ideally Manton Wood or Kiveton, coupled with visits to the customer when required, you can work from home for the rest of the time.

What we're looking for

• Understanding of the retail environment/marketplace
• Understanding of the principles and tools of category management
• Strong data manipulation and Excel skills, with a keen eye on attention to detail. Be able to identify where data has changed, and explain why
• Ability to prepare and deliver effective and action-led presentations
• Previous customer-facing role
• Previous category management and strategy experience
• Experience of retailer data system

?At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.