Senior Category & Insights Manager - Beauty

Offering the opportunity to influence across category, marketing and sales teams on some of the largest most influential beauty brands. With a focus on providing strategic insights business-wide, enabling new business opportunities that support the business and brands strategic objectives.

Directly managing two Insights Executives, the Senior Category Manager will be a key player in key business decisions.

Required Experience –

• At least 4 years’ experience in FMCG category management/consumer & shopper research agency
• Ideal but not essential, understanding of the UK beauty & cosmetics markets
• Experience with Panel data, with knowledge of Powerbi and data visualisation
• Will be able to influence stakeholders

Key Responsibilities –

• Proactively identify business opportunities, presenting these to stakeholders and senior members of the team
• Present findings and strategies to senior managers, considering the wider global position
• In order to optimize short, medium and long term performance, provide qualitative insights that will influence marketing teams around product and appropriate brands requirements in the UK
• Develop and present proposals that outline how the current data and insights available can be used most effectively to positively affect short and longterm key business decisions
• Provide report decks for internal management
• Develop and maintain relationships with key customer accounts
• Be involved with sales and marketing strategies and budgets

Vertical Advantage began in 2012. We know and understand our markets. It’s what we do best. We are the only recruiter that works across Sales, Marketing, Digital, E-Commerce, Supply Chain, Logistics and Procurement within FMCG and consumer space.
Due to the collaborative, cross-functional nature of our business, we truly invest the time in really getting to know the growth ambitions of both our candidates and clients. W
e offer insights on the market, consultancy on strategic hiring and years of experience on how to build high-performance teams.
Our values are Drive, Own, Nurture and Enjoy (#DONE). Our day to day work embodies those values and forms the fabric of the Vertical Advantage consultant’s DNA.