Are you a Category Manager with a passion for healthcare and nutrition, colourful and creative looking for a supported career?
Our client needs your insights and experience to:
* Foster strong relationships with both internal and external customer teams to better understand their needs, motivations, and goals, helping to align business objectives.
* Play a key role in the range planning process, ensuring alignment with broader business strategies.
* Build and maintain relationships with other grocery retailer teams, both internally and externally, to gain insights into their needs, motivations, and business goals.
* Take the lead in shaping, developing, and implementing The Company’s Category Vision within the organization, promoting a 'Category-First' approach across teams.
* Empower our commercial teams to access and utilize ad-hoc data, encouraging a broader perspective on success beyond The Company.
* Ensure that qualitative insights from our research go beyond the brand, complemented by continuous quantitative data sources for a comprehensive view.
* Provide ad-hoc support for NPD projects, focusing on ROS, Distribution, and Category insights.
Experience Required
* To embrace, embody, and exude all that is special and unique about The Company.
* Ideally, experience using Nielsen Answers, IRI Plussuite, i2C, Kantar, Space Planning.
* Experience building relationships with the top four supermarkets.
* An understanding of Category Fundamentals vs Management vs Leadership.
* Proactive ‘do-er’, keen to be involved in the success of the team.
* Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment.
* Relationship-building skills – getting the best out of others to achieve the plan.
* The ability to influence others through your flexible style.
* A results-focused mindset with the ability to “never give up” and find solutions to challenges.
* Experience in online retailing.
* Passionate about systems with the ability to utilize technology for continuous improvement.
* Passion for the brand and what The Company stands for – improving lives through healthy relationships with food.
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