Category Manager - Asda

Red Bull; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company in the UK seeks a Category Manager to enhance category sales with strategic Grocery customers. The ideal candidate will leverage insights to drive growth and build relationships with key partners. Responsibilities include category strategy implementation and providing data-driven recommendations. Proven experience in sales or retail is required. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic team focused on innovation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a category, sales, or retail function – customer facing.
• Experience desirable.
• Grocery experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop best-in-class category relationships with key Grocery customers.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Develop effective relationships within strategic customers.

Skills

Category Management

Data Analysis

Client Relationship Management

Retail Sales

Job description

Red Bull UK is currently recruiting for a Category Manager - Asda to be based across the UK.

The Red Bull Category Team offers best-in-class, retailer-specific advice to grow subcategory sales, category sales, and total store/digital sales. We do this through industry-leading insights and a constant focus on what’s next. The purpose of this role is to drive Total Soft Drinks and Energy category sales and profit with strategic Grocery customers through externally facing, practical Category Management initiatives and customer understanding. A successful candidate will maintain and build our independent relationships with our customer partners, ultimately seeking to be a trusted part of the customer team/captain for the category.

Job Applications will close on the 12th August at 12pm.

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

MEANINGFUL WORK (BIGGEST POTENTIAL IMPACT ON THE BUSINESS)

To develop best-in-class category relationships with key Grocery customers, leading to them growing their soft drink & S&E business ahead of market. To use shopper and sales insights to understand what is driving the category and maximise every opportunity for our key partners.

DATA

Providing data-driven insights, analyses, and recommendations to strategic customers that optimise long-term category growth by positively shaping strategy on range & distribution, space, merchandising & availability, use of digital, and price & promotions.

CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS

Developing effective, credible relationships within strategic customers with buyers, buying managers, category merchandising managers, category marketing managers, and others who will help deliver the above.

CATEGORY STRATEGY

Designing, implementing, and measuring trials that test category-building initiatives. Leading key range reviews in soft drinks, ensuring decisions are made with the shopper in mind and based on the best insights. Working towards Soft Drinks Captaincy in key partner accounts by being an integral part of the customer team, providing ongoing independent thought leadership and analysis. Contributing to the overall Red Bull Category Team and delivering new category insight projects to drive our total business forward, such as emerging macro trends.

Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role:

• Proven experience in a category, sales, or retail function – customer facing
• Experience desirable
• Grocery experience desirable

At Red Bull, we exist to give people wings. To achieve that, we recognise the value of having a highly diverse workforce that has the freedom and responsibility to realise their ideas and seize opportunities. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills, potential, and talent: everyone is welcome here.