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About the role
This is a customer-facing category management role where you will drive category growth across key grocery customers. You'll be joining a leading organisation with a strong presence in the market, dedicated to delivering high-quality products while fostering innovation and sustainability.
In this role, you will leverage data and analytics to provide insights, identify opportunities, and develop tailored category development plans that drive revenue, market share, and profitability. You'll work closely with the Commercial and Marketing teams to analyse key customer commercial activities, manage category spending, and lead innovation for brand ranges. Your work will support the development of best-in-class processes, driving ROI and improving shopper engagement both internally and externally.
Key responsibilities:
- Instrumental in influencing key grocery retail accounts.
- Customer relationship management.
- Delivering data driven category strategies.
- Contributing categoryinsights to identify category growth.
- Cross-functional collaborating with internal teams such as marketing and commercial.
The ideal category manager will have experience in a similar level Category Management role and a strong understanding of the UK retail grocery scene. You should be comfortable building relationships and working closely with customers, with a passion for figuring out what drives category performance. Experience creating and delivering successful Category Growth Plans is key, along with familiarity using tools like JDA, Nielsen & Kantar Data to make smart, data-driven decisions.
If the role and responsibilities sound like a good fit for you - then I'd love to speak to you!
If you're interested in finding out more about our available opportunities or how we can help you further your career, then please contact us today.
Please get in touch with Thomas or click "Apply Now" to be considered for this vacancy.
The Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner, based in the UK, to the FMCG and consumer product sectors.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. By applying for this role, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy, which can be found on our website. Please note that The Advocate Group is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
