Category Manager

My client is a multinational food and drink enterprise providing consumers with deliciously popular dairy products loved globally. Working within the sales team, this is a fantastic opportunity for a Category Manager looking to develop their career within a well highly successful and establised business. The ideal candidate will have had experience within a food or beverages enterprise and successful track record of delivering effective category strategy plans for the growth of sales.

Duties

• Developing a relationship with and presenting unbiased category insight and recommendations to our retail partners that will influence their decision making and help grow the category
• Working closely with the Brand teams to develop strong insight-led NPD propositions and category, shopper & consumer centric trade presentations
• Develop the strategic promotional guidelines and provide the support to enable our commercial teams to implement these with the trade
• Provide the supporting rationales to maximise our range and distribution opportunitie
• Own and drive the business Category Strategy/Plans within the customer brief
• Work with the Account Team and directly with the relevant customer contacts to understand the key priorities
• Review Merchandising to understand the range changes and develop an action plan
• Capitalise on opportunities to grow business distribution/space and improve merchandising
• Support the Private Label team to win business through identification of opportunities to ensure growth, and support the product proposals

Requirements 

• Minimum 2 years within Category MAnagement position (Food or Beverages)
• Degree level 2:1 or above
• Experience in FMCG/data sources e.g. IRI/KANTAR & Space Planning
• Excellent IT skills, especially Microsoft Excel & Powerpoint

For more information please contact olivia@vertical-advantage.com