Category Manager

Ella's Kitchen Limited; Henley-on-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Ella's Kitchen is seeking a passionate Category Manager to lead UK Grocery Accounts. The successful candidate will leverage data insights to drive business results and foster relationships with retailers. This full-time role offers the flexibility of working from home and a competitive salary, along with extensive training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus scheme

Private medical and dental

25 days holiday

High street discounts

Qualifications

• Experience of online retailing.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of Category Fundamentals vs Management vs Leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead Category manager for UK Grocery Accounts.
• Deliver insights from retailer data sources.
• Build relationships with internal and external customer teams.

Skills

Relationship building

Data analysis

Category management

Proactive mindset

Job description

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Part of the Hain Celestial Group family of brands, Ella's Kitchen’s mission is to help little ones grow up happy, healthy, and never hungry. Set up in 2006 by Ella's Dad Paul Lindley, the company prioritises health and nutritional value, but never at the expense of taste or convenience. Ella’s Kitchen strives to be good in every sense, offering healthy, handy, and fun food that doesn’t cost the earth. In 2016, Ella’s Kitchen certified as a B Corporation, a global movement of pioneering companies that are using their business as a force for good. By certifying as a B Corp, it reinforces that the business is meeting rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

We are looking for someone brilliant who believes in our mission and can live and breathe our values of childlike, winning together, owning it, fostering inclusion and being curious.

At Ella’s Kitchen, we are guided by our values; they set the tone of our culture and we look out for newbies who will be a natural fit to our values and complement and contribute to our business.

About The Hain Celestial Group

Hain Celestial Group is a leading health and wellness company whose purpose is to inspire healthier living for people, communities and the planet through better-for-you brands. For more than 30 years, our portfolio of beloved brands has intentionally focused on delivering nutrition and well-being that positively impacts today and tomorrow. Headquartered in Hoboken, N.J., Hain Celestial’s products across snacks, baby/kids, beverages, meal preparation, and personal care, are marketed and sold in over 75 countries around the world. Our leading brands include Garden Veggie snacks, Terra chips, Garden of Eatin’ snacks, Earth’s Best and Ella’s Kitchen baby and kids foods, Celestial Seasonings teas, Joya and Natumi plant-based beverages, Greek Gods yogurt, Cully & Sully, Imagine and New Covent Garden soups, Yves and Linda McCartney’s (under license) meat-free, and Alba Botanica natural sun care, among others.

Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion

At Ella’s Kitchen, we are committed to promoting and enabling a positive culture where everyone can be themselves and diversity of thought is welcomed.

We give a full and fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

If you need reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can support you in the right way.

Location:Near Henley-on-Thames – you’ll be able to work flexibly between home and our lovely Barns (minimum of 2 days per week).

Reports to:Category Controller (Runs Making the Category Grow)

Contract:Full time, Permanent, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

Purpose of role:

·To be lead Category manager for UK Grocery Accounts

·Deliver insight from all available retailer data sources that drives tangible business results

·Contribute to creation of a ‘Category-First’ mentality at Ella’s Kitchen

·Equip and encourage the business to make category responsible Core E/NPD decisions

Role activities / responsibilities:

1)Category Leadership with Top 4 Grocers (50%)

(Accounts to be confirmed during interview)

a.Build category relationships with the internal and external customer teams so that you understand the needs, motivations, and aspirations of both businesses, producing win:win category recommendations…

b.…Use all available data sources to do so:

i.Be the expert when it comes to IRI data, understand their performance, and identify their (and our) category opportunities for growth

ii.Overlay Kantar consumer metrics to hone analysis and recommendations

c.Be a key part of range planning processes

d.Utilise Space Planning to:

i.measure space to sales

iii.bring range recommendations to life

2)Other retailers (30%)

(Accounts to be confirmed during interview)

a.Build relationships with other grocery retailer teams (internally and externally) so that you understand the needs, motivations, and aspirations of both businesses, producing win:win category recommendations…

b.…Use all available data sources to do so:

i.Be the expert when it comes to IRI data, understand their performance, and identify their (and our) category opportunities for growth

ii.Overlay Kantar consumer metrics to hone analysis and recommendations

c.Be a key part of the range planning process in these accounts.

3)Internal Focus (20%):

a.Help curate, develop and deploy our Ella’s Kitchen Category Vision internally, leading the entire organisation towards a ‘Category-First’ mentality.

b.Equip our commercial teams so that they can mine their own ad-hoc data, and help them to think wider than Ella’s when measuring success (our ‘tail’ vs the Category ‘tail’)

c.Champion how Mums and Dads behave when shopping in all internal discussions (e.g. NPD Funnel and the development of sell-in 1-pagers & decks), which will include leading category inductions.

d.Ensure that our (Friends) qualitative insight is developed beyond brand and thus, along with continuous quantitative data sources (IRI / Kantar / Dunnhumby), equips us with best in class sales stories for NPD and range architecture

e.Provide ad hoc support on ROS, Distribution and Category inputs for NPD projects.

You will need:

·To embrace, embody and exude all that is special and unique about Ella’s Kitchen

·An understanding of Category Fundamentals vs Management vs Leadership

·Proactive ‘do-er’, keen to be involved in the success of the team

·Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast paced environment

·Relationship building skills – getting the best out of others to achieve the plan

·The ability to influence others through your flexible style

·A results focussed mindset with the ability to “never never give up” and find solutions to challenges

·Experience of online retailing

·Passionate about systems with the ability to utilise technology for continuous improvement

·Passion for the brand and what Ella’s stands for – improving children’s lives through healthy relationships with food.

Experience of the following would be advantageous:

·Retailer relationships, ideally with top four supermarkets

And What You’ll Get In Return:

·Bucket loads of training and development, supporting your career pathway

·Competitive salary

·Discretionary bonus scheme

·A Box of Treats, including private medical, dental, pension, life assurance, 25 days holiday and the ability to buy more, high street discounts, amazing wellbeing events, Give It A Go days… to name but a few!

·A really awesome place to come to work … our beautiful Barns in the Oxfordshire countryside, but the flexibility to achieve a good work/life blend

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Sales

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Services

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