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Position Title: Category Manager, Retail
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Scarborough
About McCain
At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality-shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do.
Why join the McCain family
* Your Life - we're here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.
* Your Success - work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, drive, and success.
* Your Impact - we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business.
About the role
We're looking for a Category Manager to become a trusted partner for our core categories and the frozen food market. You'll play a pivotal role in turning consumer, market, and customer insights into real actions that unlock growth, while building strong relationships with both internal teams and external retail partners.
Accountabilities
* Analyse market and consumer data to spot trends, generate insights and translate them into growth opportunities.
* Work closely with the sales team to drive distribution and deliver against commercial plans.
* Build trusted relationships with customers, delivering impactful category reviews, range reviews and NPD sell-ins.
* Partner with ecommerce and commercial teams to develop and deliver online growth plans.
* Create and execute shopper activation plans aligned with McCain's Category Vision.
* Act as the category partner for a defined product area, ensuring insight-driven strategy, successful NPD launches and effective activation.
Location
Being in the office every single day is a thing of the past. Here at McCain, we champion hybrid working. This means we don't have a set expectation of exactly when you need to be in the office - however we do encourage our full-time, office-based people to connect in person with others for around half of their working time.
What we're looking for
* Experience analysing and interpreting data, and turning it into actionable recommendations.
* A background in Category Management within FMCG ideally.
* Strong relationship-building and influencing skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
* A clear understanding of route-to-market processes and shopper behaviour.
* The ability to manage projects, juggle priorities, and deliver results with pace.
* A curious, collaborative and resilient mindset, with a genuine customer focus.
The benefits of working for McCain
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in 'chips'. For working hard, you'll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:
* An achievable yearly bonus based on personal performance.
* An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
* Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
* Optional health cash plan
* Cycle to work scheme
* 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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