Category Executive

Euro-Projects Recruitment Ltd; England; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food FMCG sector is seeking a Category Executive to engage with major UK retailers like Sainsbury's and Tesco. This hybrid role requires a deep passion for food and the ability to innovate within a medium-sized firm that promotes family values. Candidates will manage brand relationships strategically while embracing a culture of integrity and honesty.

Qualifications

• Experience in food, beverage or FMCG sectors.
• Strong category management understanding.
• Must be passionate and inquisitive about food.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with large UK food retailers.
• Drive growth in category management.
• Innovate and challenge existing processes.

Skills

Passion for food

Understanding of category management

Experience with UK retailers

Innovative problem-solving

Job description

Category Executive

• Passionate about food? Seeking Category executive jobs / category Manager jobs, food National Account manager jobs or commercial manager or similar in food / grocery / FMCG / retail ?
• High quality FMCG baked goods (fine foods) dealing with large retailers Sainsbury s, Morrisons, Tesco etc managing brands commercial focus grocery retail etc.
• Must be a foodie . Must be passionate about food
• GBP50million turnover business who supply fine foods to Harrods, Tesco, Waitrose, M&S etc.

Are you a Food or beverage or FMCG industry professional who has good experience of dealing with large UK retailers? Are you passionate about food and want to really make a difference with a newly created role? Are you seeking exciting FMCG jobs, food industry jobs but with a fast paced agile medium sized business with family values?

What we need for this Category Executive / Category Manager Senior Food Industry jobs role

• Very flexible on your background we are aware we will likely need to pivot someone into this role possibly a category executive, category Manager, Brand Manager, Commercial Manager, National Account manager or Key account manager who understands driving growth with UK retailers
• You MUST be a foodie passionate and inquisitive about food. It shines through in this business just how passionate they are about food, the provenance of food, travel and food from different cultures etc
• You MUST have experience of working with UK retailers (ideally food but we are open to non food / wider FMCG / bev etc.)
• Ideally strong category management experience / understanding
• Desire, passion, inquisitive these are the key things we need
• We might consider someone who is only able to do 4 days (so part time)
• They are innovative you will be the sort of person that says have you tried this rather than we ve always done it this way . You will be curious and seek to challenge and innovate
• Their culture and whole business is about value add your mind-set will therefore be in line always seeking to add value
• Their reputation is outstanding they value integrity and honesty above all else again you will share these values

This Brand manager jobs role / category executive jobs role is hybrid. 2 or 3 days per week in the office in Coventry and then hybrid work from home for 2 or 3 days per week. So candidates seeking food jobs in the Coventry, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwick, rugby, Worcester, Leamington Spa, Leicester, West Midlands sort of regions would be well suited

To apply for this category executive job, please contact Edward Smith at Euro Projects Recruitments Ltd.

Please note that if you are not contacted within the next ten days then your application, on this occasion, has not been successful. We thank you for taking the time to apply.