Category Manager - FMCG

Planet CIC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Company pension 6% employee

25 days holiday + Bank holidays

Sick pay

4x Death in Service

Job summary

Planet CIC is seeking a Category Manager to join our head office in Hammersmith, West London. You will thrive in a fast-paced FMCG environment, managing multiple priorities and delivering insightful category strategies to drive growth.

With 2+ years in category or sales and strong analytical skills, you will collaborate across teams, use data to challenge briefs, and build internal and external relationships to support the business goals.

Qualifications

• FMCG background with UK market experience preferred.
• 2+ years in category or sales with analytical skills.
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to data.

Responsibilities

• Drive category management initiatives and prioritize actions.
• Collaborate with internal teams to achieve shared goals.
• Develop insights from data to support strategy and decision making.

Skills

Category management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Data interpretation

Collaboration

UK market knowledge

Circana/Nielsen/Kantar/Dunnhumby

Excel

PowerPoint

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Our client is a global leader in food manufacturing (FMCG) selling products in over 100 countries with 25 factories worldwide. They are a great company to work for offering excellent career progression and job satisfaction. They are currently looking for a Category Manager to be based at the head office in Hammersmith, West London.

This is an excellent opportunity, the company's portfolio has grown strongly in the past 5 years and they are looking for a candidate to grow rapidly as part of a close knit and supportive team with an autonomous working environment. This is a developmental role, a path to becoming a category manager.

Job role

The successful candidate will have the energy and ambition to make a significant contribution to the future success of the business. You need to be someone who thrives in fast paced, action orientated environments and relishes new challenges, managing multiple priorities and working collaboratively with their colleagues to deliver a shared goal.

Background:

• FMCG background, preferably in UK market
• Category or Sales executive with strong analytical skills & over 2-year experience ready to take the next step for their career

Skills:

• Demonstrates a good understanding in category management principles
• Commercially aware
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent analytical thinking, attention to detail and interpretation of data
• Ability to work under pressure whilst being highly organised and efficient
• Able build positive internal & external collaborative working relationships
• Knowledge of Circana/Nielsen, Kantar or Dunnhumby
• Working knowledge of excel & PowerPoint
• Knowledgeable in category management principles
• Commercially aware

The Individual:

• A 'can do' attitude, happy to 'roll up' their sleeves
• Dynamic and creative with analytical integrity
• Forward thinking and proactive
• Has a natural curiosity to look beyond the brief & beyond the data, asking why?
• Happy to have an opinion, to challenge and to be challenged

Company Package:

• Market Leader in their products and sector
• Private health care
• Company pension 6% employee contribution
• 25 days holiday + Bank holidays
• Company sick pay
• 4 x Death in Service