Senior FMCG Category Manager - Grocery (Hybrid)

Noble Foods Ltd; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive basic

Service Awards

Enhanced paternity and maternity

Free life insurance

Enhanced Sick Pay Scheme

Perkbox discounts

Discounted eggs and chicken

Celebration day after 1 year

Health checks and DigiCare +

Discounted gym memberships

Eye tests every 2 years

Discounted mobile plans

Bonuses after probation

Wellness programme

Employee Charity Matching Scheme

Job summary

Noble Foods Ltd is seeking a Senior Category Manager to drive growth for our retail customers and brands. The role is hybrid with 3 days a week in Staines-upon-Thames and focuses on turning data and shopper insight into compelling commercial recommendations that influence customers and internal stakeholders.

You will use Circana, Kantar, dunnhumby and Retail Link to uncover opportunities, develop trade stories, and partner with Sales, Marketing and Brand teams to deliver category and brand

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ Category Management experience.
• FMCG experience.
• Strong customer-facing and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation ability.
• Understanding of the UK grocery market.
• Confident to influence and drive positive change.
• Ability to move between strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with key retail contacts and be a category partner of choice.
• Influence range reviews, space, distribution and promotional planning.
• Champion the Category Vision internally and with customers.
• Use data sources to uncover opportunities and tell compelling stories.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing and Brand teams to translate insight into growth.
• Develop customer-specific category and trade stories for commercial decisions.
• Lead shopper marketing activity and manage customer budgets.
• Raise Category Management capability across the business.

Skills

Category Management

FMCG experience

Relationship building

Analytical skills

Presentation skills

UK grocery market knowledge

Influence and change

Strategy to execution

Tools

Circana

Kantar

dunnhumby

Retail Link

Job description

Noble Foods Ltd is seeking a Senior Category Manager to drive growth for our retail customers and brands. The role is hybrid with 3 days a week in Staines-upon-Thames and focuses on turning data and shopper insight into compelling commercial recommendations that influence customers and internal stakeholders.

You will use Circana, Kantar, dunnhumby and Retail Link to uncover opportunities, develop trade stories, and partner with Sales, Marketing and Brand teams to deliver category and brand