Junior Category Manager

St Pierre Groupe; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FMCG company is seeking a Junior Category Manager in Manchester. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of FMCG category management experience and be proficient in utilizing data for strategic insights. Responsibilities include developing customer relationships, managing product portfolios, and leading category agenda initiatives. The role comes with a competitive benefits package including an annual bonus and flexible working options.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Defined contribution pension scheme

Private Health Insurance

International Travel Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

27 annual leave days

Flexible working hours

Excellent work location

Qualifications

• 2 years of FMCG category management experience required.
• Understanding of category management principles and tools.
• Analytical and investigative data skills are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Be the expert on the category, shopper, and consumer.
• Build collaborative relationships with customers.
• Lead the strategic category agenda with assigned customers.

Skills

FMCG category management experience

Data interpretation

Excel skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Tools

Circana

Nielsen

Kantar WPO

Job description

JOB PURPOSE

The Junior Category Manager will be a trusted category advisor with our customers, providing them with insights and recommendations to drive their Category growth and deliver on joint business plan targets. The successful candidate will be focussed on Asda, Morrisons and Booker.

This role is ideal for someone with 2 years previous FMCG category management experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be seen internally & externally as the expert on the Category, the Shopper and the Consumer.
• Establish collaborative customer relationships built on trust and objectivity to influence Category initiatives in the short, medium and long term. Engaging and influencing a broad range of contacts within the customer.
• Are confident using a variety of data sources (retailer data, continuous data providers and broader market intelligence), to interpret the data and then simplify into compelling insights and strategies to grow sales.
• Responsible for owning, developing, and leading the strategic category agenda with your designated customers to grow both Retailer and St Pierre Groupe sales.
• Manage product portfolios within each customer, highlighting risks and opportunities, delivering on range priorities, increasing distribution, securing NPD listings and enhancing on fixture presence (space & location).
• Work collaboratively with internal customer account managers to ensure joint business targets are agreed and met.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• 2 years previous FMCG category management experience.
• Experience working collaboratively with UK Retailers
• Understanding of the retail environment/marketplace.
• Understanding of the principles and tools of category management.
• Adept at using data platforms such as Circana, Nielsen, Kantar WPO and Retailer own databases.
• Excellent Excel skills.
• Ability to manipulate data & extract key actionable insights into presentations.
• Excellent communication skills.
• People management skills.
• Commercially savvy.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Analytical and investigative data skills.
• High levels of resilience and robustness.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

PACKAGE

At St Pierre Groupe our employer brand is important. In addition to salary, we offer an extremely attractive benefits package consisting of:

• Annual bonus (details to be provided)
• Defined contribution pension scheme (8% employer, minimum 1% employee contribution)
• Private Health Insurance and Medicash (after 3 months service)
• International Travel Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual Leave of 27 days + 1 day for your Birthday + statutory days
• Flexible working (start time between 8am-10am) + early Friday finish.
• Hybrid working with a mix of 3x onsite and 2x remote days.
• Excellent work location at Didsbury Towers with onsite café, parking, and events.