Category Manager - FMCG

Category Manager - FMCG

Location: Leeds , West Yorkshire Salary: 30000 to 45000 per annum - Excellent Benefits Date posted: 02/06/2012 18:03 Job type:Permanent Company: JV Recruitment Ltd Contact: Jonathan Voss Ref: Totaljobs/JV/10072 Job ID: 53730490

This leading food manufacturer is seeking an experienced Category Managers as a result of continued growth.. Your role as Category Manager is to champion the shopper from a specific customer perspective, ensuring external alignment of customer range and category reviews with the plans of the business. Working in partnership with internal innovation and marketing teams, you will make recommendations to the Category Controller to drive category growth via brand development and own label solutions. It will be your responsibility to develop the category relationship with retailer buyers and position your business as the expert in key categories. You will support the Category Controller in range and category reviews, and tailor customer plans, (NPD selling stories, fixture visions, brand plans etc). NPD and distribution target setting/tracking will also be your responsibility. This is a full on, challenging and highly rewarding position where your category skills will be finely tuned.

It is likely you will join with previous FMCG manufacturing or retail experience within category management. You will be highly focussed on commercial success factors and be very driven by the achievement of sales and shares targets. You will under stand the shopper and how to drive sales at the point of purchase through understanding the mind-set of the consumer. In addition, you will have strong skills in data manipulation, specifically retailer data such as Dunnhumby and Retail Link, as well as Nielsen/ IRI / Kantar, and you will be able to provide evidence of using data to create relevant insights. Relationship building is an absolute must given you will be the first point of contact for the customer as the category expert. Clear, concise communication is key, as is an open, collaborative, yet focussed working style.