Category Manager - Independent Wholesale

Red Bull Gruppe; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company in London is seeking a Category Manager for Independent Wholesale. The role focuses on driving sales and profits within the Soft Drinks and Energy categories through category management initiatives. Applicants should have a proven background in category management or sales, with strong analytical and relationship-building skills. This position involves regular travel across the UK.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a category, sales, or retail function.
• Customer facing experience desirable.
• Trade Press experience desirable.
• Wholesale or Trade Association experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop best in class category leadership across customers.
• Provide data-driven insights to key customers.
• Develop relationships with strategic customers.
• Design and implement trials for category building.
• Build and deploy the UK Trade Press Category Strategy.

Skills

Proven experience in a category, sales, or retail function

Customer facing experience

Trade Press experience

Wholesale or Trade Association experience

Job description

RedBull UK is currently recruiting for a Category Manager - Independent Wholesale to be based in London, UK.

The RedBull Category Team offer 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 Independent Impulse customers, as well as independent stores- through externally facing, practical Category Management initiatives and customer understanding. Part of this remit will be delivered through national relationships, but there will also be significant impact that needs to be delivered via indirect relationships – so upskilling and supporting the Field team, building and deploying a Category trade press and trade association strategy, and supporting indirectly through the customer’s own teams will be essential.

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

RedBull UK is currently recruiting for a Category Manager - Independent Wholesale to be based in London, UK.

The RedBull Category Team offer 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 Independent Impulse customers, as well as independent stores- through externally facing, practical Category Management initiatives and customer understanding. Part of this remit will be delivered through national relationships, but there will also be significant impact that needs to be delivered via indirect relationships – so upskilling and supporting the Field team, building and deploying a Category trade press and trade association strategy, and supporting indirectly through the customer’s own teams will be essential.

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

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

To develop best in class category leadership across the broad universe of 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 give easy next steps as to how retailers and wholesalers can turn these insights into action.

Providing data-driven insights, analyses and recommendations to key customers that optimise
long-term category growth by positively shaping strategy on: Range & Distribution/ Space, Merchandising & Availability /Use of Digital/Price & Promotions

Developing effective, credible relationships within strategic customers with: Buyer & Buying Manager/ Category Merchandising manager/ Category Marketing manager / Anyone else who will help to deliver the above

Designing, implementing and measuring trials that test category building initiatives
Building and deploying our field sales Category Strategy – utilizing the incredible UK field sales team to increasingly take insights into action.
Build, develop and deploy the UK Trade Press Category Strategy. Finding effective solutions to indirectly get category insights into the hands of shopkeepers and caterers up and down the UK!
Being a part of the overall RedBull Category Team – and delivering new category insight projects to drive our total business forward – e.g. emerging macro trends.

• Proven experience in a category, sales, or retail function – customer facing experience desirable.
• Trade Press experience desirable.
• Wholesale or Trade Association experience desirable.

• Travel 30-40%

WHERE YOU'LL BE BASED

Multiple Locations England, United Kingdom

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