Category Manager

Signature Career Management; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits you as a Junior Category Manager in a dynamic Midlands-based food manufacturer. This role offers the chance to step into a Category Manager position, where you'll leverage data to drive insights that influence shopper behavior and promote business growth. Collaborating with sales and marketing teams, you'll help elevate product positioning and identify new development areas. Join a company with a remarkable success story and be part of a growing team that values innovation and data-driven strategies. If you're ready to make an impact, this is the perfect role for you!

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in FMCG category/insights management.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Familiarity with Nielsen and Kantar data sets.

Responsibilities

• Use data to identify insights that influence shopper behaviors.
• Build strong relationships with retailers for smooth range reviews.
• Collaborate with sales to translate insights into strategy.

Skills

FMCG category management

Data interpretation

Communication skills

Relationship management

Nielsen and Kantar familiarity

Job description

Are you a Junior Category or Insights Manager looking to change things up and step up?

If you’re looking to join an established yet evolving, exciting business which I can guarantee you are familiar with, this is the one for you…

The business I am supporting has an incredible success story and is by no means a one-hit-wonder. It is a company built on hard graft and specialism complemented by a passion for what they have done for years, and years, and years!

It is truly the perfect time to join as the tide is changing and whoever steps into this position will have the opportunity to pave the way for the future of this function and really pioneer best in class practices among a fabulous growing team.

In short, this is a Midlands based food manufacturer looking for a Junior Category Manager to step a Category Manager role with the opportunity to develop the function alongside the Head of Sales.

This will balance retail story telling with commercial data analysis and work cross functionally with sales and marketing to really elevate positioning and identify new areas for development.

This business is going places and have done incredibly well so far, imagine the success when taking a truly data-led approach!!

The Role:

• Using data to identify insights that will influence shopper behaviours and promote business growth
• Interpret data and highlight any key issues, providing the commercial team with insight into market activity and enable specific product recommendations based on highlighted trends
• Build and nurture strong relationships, communicating clearly with retailers to ensure smooth roll out of range reviews
• Attend regular meetings with retailers to gain understanding of their needs and provide solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively with the sales team, translating insight into performance driving strategy

The Person:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience of FMCG category/insights management
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Familiar with Nielson, Kantar and retailer data sets
• Experience managing relationships with retailers
• Ability to interpret data and extract key insights
• Capability to present data and insights both internally and externally with passion and energy
• Ability to make recommendations to key stakeholders to assist the growth of the business

To apply directly please send a copy of your CV to [e-mail] or alternatively please apply via the link below.

Whilst we will always endeavour to respond to you, due to the high levels of applications we receive this isn’t always possible. If you are not contacted within 3 working days, you have unfortunately not been shortlisted for this role.

Please note Signature Career Management is acting as an employment agency.

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Job Overview

ID:

1459838

Date Posted:

Posted 1 day ago

Expiration Date:

30/05/2025

Location:

East Midlands

Competitive

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