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Category manager (12 month ftc)

Preston (Lancashire)
Permanent
Signature Career Management
Category manager
€50,000 a year
Posted: 20 December
Offer description

Managing Consultant | FMCG Marketing Recruitment Specialist

Do you have a passion for data, a passion for category management, and want to thrive in an environment where category is the heart of everything they do as a business?

Do you have some experience in an externally facing role when it comes to presenting to buyers, as opposed to just being internally facing?

If so, then this role is a must read!

YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING THE TESCO ACCOUNT – THERE IS NOTHING BIGGER!!!

This is a rare opportunity to work for a Blue Chip FMCG business who are still family owned, who have such a fantastic platform for growth, financial backing, innovation, and opportunity for wider personal development. They’re flexible, demonstrate they care, and have a dynamic way of working. If you are an ambitious, driven, and entrepreneurial marketer, then this is the perfect team for you! Yes, they are blue chip but operate like a fast‑paced SME, where collaboration and communication are key to success, where you are not just a number, and success is instantly recognised across the whole business!


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Responsibilities

* Create and lead the foods division category vision to drive future growth across Tesco.
* Utilise Nielsen, Kantar, IRI, Dunnhumby, EPOS, and shopper data.
* Act as an objective and independent category advisor, developing and delivering an annual category strategy and plans to deliver significant category growth opportunities for the brand and the retailer.
* Build and develop relationships with the retailers based on credibility and trust.
* Build compelling category selling stories to shape retailers’ thinking.
* Interpret and utilise category data to grow sales, by analysing key trends and dynamics shaping Grocery, Fresh and Chilled and the wider implications for the category and competitors.
* Lead and facilitate cross‑functional category projects (internally and externally) managing multiple stakeholders.
* Work with the relevant NAMs to support strategic objectives with the retailer.


Qualifications

* Strong analytical skills and proficiency in the use of external market data tools with the ability to turn data into insight.
* Experience of continuous and ad‑hoc shopper and consumer market data/research.
* Knowledge and experience of using IRI/Nielsen EPOS data and Kantar/Scantrack consumer panel data – essential; Dunnhumby preferred.
* Good communication, relationship‑building and stakeholder‑management skills.
* Strong leadership skills, a strategic thinker, and a real team player.
* 3+ years category management/commercial experience within an FMCG environment.


Seniority level

* Mid‑Senior level


Employment type

* Full‑time


Job function

* Marketing
* Food and Beverage Manufacturing (Industry)

To apply directly please send a copy of your CV to mike@signaturecm.co.uk or alternatively please apply via the link below.

Whilst we will always endeavour to respond to you, due to the high levels of applications we receive this isn’t always possible. If you are not contacted within 3 working days, you have unfortunately not been shortlisted for this role.

Please note Signature Career Management is acting as an employment agency.

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Signature Career Management by 2x.

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