Category Manager

Working with our client on an exciting opportunity to work for a market-leading household food brand + own label food manufacturer.

Retail Customer focused

Leeds- Hybrid working

Salary up to £50K (DOE)

Key Responsibilities:

• Driving customer & category strategies to influence the key category levers such as range, merchandising and pricing & promotionst.
• Delivering expertise on the market, category and shopper to identify risks and opportunities for customers and the business to deliver category growth.
• Collaborating with cross functional internal and external customer teams, ensuring insights are at the heart of all decision making and initiatives, including the innovation pipeline.
• Working collaboratively with the commercial and brand team, providing insight into market activity and enabling specific recommendations based on highlighted trends.
• Analysing NPD launches and activity, making recommendations for future innovation and activation.
• Conducting regular store visits and collating key market insight including promotions, merchandising changes, NPD and cross category insight.
• Creating reports and performing market audits to assist in category and business growth.

Key Skills:

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• 4 years of previous experience in a Category Management role within FMCG.
• Excellent data interpretation and analysis skills, with the aptitude to pull out key insights and actionable recommendations.
• Expert knowledge of market data platforms such as Nielsen and Kantar.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong working relationships both internally and externally.
• Ability to present in an engaging manner to a variety of stakeholders.
• Highly proficient user of Excel and PowerPoint to manipulate and present data.
• Ability to multitask and work well both independently and as part of a team.