Details:
- Salary: £50,000 - Annum
- Location: Greenford London
- Date: 1 month ago
Description:
An excellent opportunity for a Category Manager to join this world class Food manufacturer.
OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS
Competitive Salary - £50,000 + upto 10% bonus
Fully office based role.
Mon to Fri, 8am to 5pm or 8.30am to 5.30pm CATEGORY MANAGER
Key aspects of the Category Manager role include:
Work across depots, departments, functions, teams, categories and a wide variety of customer channels (retail, foodservice and wholesale), own brand and branded.
Deliver implementation of category management and reporting to support strategic direction of the business in partnership with key customers.
Leading customer category range reviews in collaboration with commercial objectives to enhance market penetration and share as well as margin delivery.
Fully understand our sub-categories in terms of market size, competitors, growth and trends.
Pro-actively seek customer and consumer feedback on our products. THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
The ideal candidate will have a similar background as a Category manager ideally from within the food industry. Other key skills will include:
Have an exceptional understanding of food trends, food ingredients and range planning.
FMCG ready to eat and or ready to cook category experience in a retail environment.
Identifying and bringing to market commercially profitable, consumer insight led opportunities
Undertaking regular range reviews with retailers.
Strong analytical and presentation skills, ability to achieve consensus, and influence senior stakeholders and key customers. If this Category Manager role is of interest and you would like to investigate this further, apply TODAY!!!
Kandhu Recruitment are specialist recruiters within the Food, Drink and FMCG Sector
"Kandhu Recruitment will consider all applications based on each candidate's suitability to the role or similar roles within the Food Sector and if we feel you are a relevant candidate we will process your application by adding you to our secure recruitment database and then contacting you to progress job opportunities further. We do not contact unsuitable applicants."
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