Category Development Executive

myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community; Slough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global platform as a Category Development Executive with a top UK employer. You'll implement strategies to drive category growth and sales while collaborating with key stakeholders. Ideal for candidates with FMCG expertise, strong data skills, and a passion for achieving results.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Global share plans

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and managing customer relationships.
• Previous FMCG experience is crucial.
• Data driven with intermediate Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement category growth strategies and ensure Reckitt delivers against retailer initiatives.
• Drive Reckitt distribution and optimize range and merchandising.
• Translate data to recommend in-store actions aimed at strengthening the category.

Skills

Trade Marketing

Category Analysis

Data Analysis

Collaboration

Sales Negotiation

Education

Degree calibre

Tools

Nielsen

Space Planning

IRI

Kantar

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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This job is with Reckitt, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online.Within Sales, we're focused on achieving outperformance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success.We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

About The Role

You will work on the front line of strategic execution and at the centre of product delivery within a FTSE10 Company and one of the top 3 TV advertisers in the UK - with results that consistently outperform our competitors.

Our brands are Number 1 or Number 2 brands in all their primary markets and we work with key retail players like Tesco, Boots, Asda and Sainsbury (amongst many others!). You will be able to say that you work for the most successful market innovator in the sector - with 30% of sales over three years coming from new products - and a company recognised for the strength of its commercial capabilities, offering numerous career opportunities.

You will be responsible for implementing category growth strategies, through 4P tactical or strategic levers, which grow categories and ultimately drive sales and profit for Reckitt.

Your responsibilities

• Execute best in class category management, to ensure Reckitt is delivering against retailer initiatives in line with Reckitt desires
• Understand relevant Category Growth Driver's within the retailer, with quantifiable £RSV opportunity, and how 4P tactics will deliver growth
• Build partnerships with key stakeholders, internally , considering touch points across various functions
• Act without bias, but be commercially aware of decisions, communicating with tact and diplomacy at all times
• Be involved in the range review process end to end.
• Drive Reckitt distribution, share of shelf and quality of placement via optimised range and merchandising
• Translate & analyse data to recommend in store actions aimed at strengthening the category
• Performance Measures; advantage Group engagement ranking, scorecard achievement via measuring Customer, Shopper, Consumer, Retailer & Reckitt metrics, listed distribution tracker, leadership and engagement
  
  

The experience we're looking for

• Experience of developing and managing customer relationships
• Confident & capable of communicating with key internal stakeholders.
• Passion for achievement; integrity and drive with a strong desire to make things happen
• Links data to recommendations succinctly
• Previous FMCG experience
• Degree calibre
• Data experienced; Nielsen, Space Planning, IRI, Kantar, or similar
• Intermediate usage of Excel & Powerpoint
  
  

The skills for success

Trade Marketing, Field sales; Field sales management, Ecommerce, Analysing sales and Ecommerce data, Leadership skills, Consumer Insights; Shopper Insights; Customer Insights; Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing, Consultative Selling, Customer strategy; Channel strategy, Sales strategy development, Perform product planning, Business accumen; financial accumen, commercial accumen, Sales negotiation, P&L Management, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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