Category Manager

Euro Projects Recruitment; West Midlands Combined Authority; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading company specializing in FMCG is seeking a Category Manager to drive brand strategies with top UK retailers. This hybrid role requires a passion for food and innovation, alongside experience in retail management. Join a vibrant team focused on integrity and making impactful contributions to the food sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in food or FMCG, ideally with category management.
• Passion for food and culture, with a curiosity to innovate.
• Experience working with UK retailers like Sainsbury’s, Tesco.

Responsibilities

• Manage brands and develop strategies with large retailers.
• Drive growth and value addition within the category.
• Collaborate in a hybrid working environment.

Skills

Passion for food

Curiosity and innovation

Understanding of category management

Experience with UK retailers

Job description

Category Manager

• Passionate about food? Seeking Category Manager jobs, food National Account manager jobs or commercial manager jobs 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
• £50million 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 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 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, traveland 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 manager jobs role is hybrid. 2 or 3 days per week in the office in Coventry and then hybrid work from home for 2 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 manager 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.