Overview
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About You
You are ambitious and always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You are ready for a new challenge and want a career with purpose; to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
The Role
To lead the business in accelerating growth through
* Build strong, collaborative relationships with retailers. Influence partners to adopt joint business plans, including range reviews, merchandising, and promotional strategies.
* Create compelling, insight-led selling stories using data from Nielsen, Circana and other tools to drive category initiatives and secure retailer buy-in.
* Gaining commitment to joint category plans on key initiatives including range and merchandising
* Monitor and evaluate category, shopper, and competitor trends. Translate insights into actionable recommendations to address opportunities and challenges
* Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and other internal teams to ensure seamless execution of category plans.
Skills & Experience
* Experience in category development or commercial role, ideally within the UK FMCG market
* Highly analytical with experience dissecting data to build persuasive stories
* Proven ability to build and maintain influential business relationships through strong communication and interpersonal skills
* Strong time management and prioritisation abilities
* Skilled in Microsoft Office; especially Excel and PowerPoint
* Degree-level educated or equivalent preferred, but not essential
Total Benefits
We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme. Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work. We are proud to be rated as a top 100 workplace for working mothers for two years in a row. We offer a flexible hybrid working environment and welcome a conversation to this approach.
To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will then review your application and follow up with you if you seem like a great fit for this role.
Equal Opportunity
Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Location & Job Type
Primary Location: Walton Oaks
Additional Locations:
Worker Type: Employee
Worker Sub-Type: Regular
Time Type: Full time
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