Vitacress Salads St Mary Bourne, Lower Link Farm, Lower Link, Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom Req #269
23 April 2024
Passionate about food? Then come join us here at Vitacress as a Category Manager and fuel your passion with a career that feeds your soul.
At Vitacress Salads, we're passionate about delivering fresh, high-quality produce to our customers. As a leading supplier in the industry, we're dedicated to fostering innovation, driving growth, and maintaining the highest standards of quality and sustainability. Join us on our mission to Nurture the Future & make a positive impact on the food industry!
We’re on the lookout for a new Category Manager to join us here at Vitacress Salads, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our category vision and driving growth with our key customers. Leveraging data and analytics, you'll provide the insights, identify opportunities and develop tailored category development plans that drive revenue, market share, and profitability. Your strategic insights along with your passion will shape our product offerings, influence shopper behaviour, and ensure we meet industry standards.
As a Category Manager at Vitacress salads you will work closely with our Commercial Team working with both our Herbs and Salads sites in the UK. One of your key tasks analysing and reviewing key customer commercial activities leading own brand innovation ranges, using this to identify. customer – specific opportunities. You’ll manage category spend and support the development of best-in-class ways of working, driving ROI and shopper measures both internally and externally.
You’ll enjoy working in a fast-paced consumer centric environment and have previous category experience, with proficiency in data and trends analysis and a desire to develop skills in wider marketing. You’re passionate about food and just as passionate about nurturing the relationships with your customers and colleagues a like, being a collaborative team player with the ability to influence colleagues.
The role is a full-time permanent position working 40 hours per week Monday to Friday. Your week will be split to be based from both our Vitacress Sites Herbs in Chichester + Salads in Andover, with occasional travel required to customer sites. There is an attractive starting salary of up to £55,000, plus our company benefits.
If the above sounds like you, then APPLY TODAY to join our team and let your love for food become the secret ingredient to our success.
You can apply by clicking the button below or you can reach out to Emily.Jones@vitacress.com for an informal chat and further information.
About Us
We are one of Europe's leading suppliers of fresh produce, specialising in watercress, salads and fresh herbs.
Established in Hampshire 1951, we became part of the RAR Group in 2008. We have a proud heritage of market-leading innovation including the introduction of living herbs, and baby leaf salads, and market-defining salad leaves including bagged watercress, rocket and baby spinach. We have a wide range of customers in the UK, both under supermarket own brands and Steve's Leaves, we are branded market-leaders in Portugal and also operate in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. We employ 1500 people across Europe. We're passionate about promoting the use of fresh produce, which is why we have introduced the Herbilicious and Wild for Watercress campaigns, as well as participating in the Make More of Salad campaign run by the British Leafy Salad Association.
We have farms in the UK, Portugal, Germany and Spain, and a global sourcing network to ensure that, no matter what the season, we supply the freshest, tastiest, healthiest, most exciting products on the market. We are determined to leave things better than we found them, and as such we have set up the Vitacress Conservation Trust to promote the well being of the unique chalk stream habitats where many of our watercress sites are based.
Please visit our sustainability section to learn more about our work and our partners.
Culture Close to the Soil
The Vitacress team has one goal; to provide the freshest, tastiest, healthiest and most exciting produce throughout the year. Inspired by our heritage and pioneering spirit, we constantly strive to bring new ideas to the market.
We win customers’ trust by delivering the best in quality, service and ethical standards. Our people care for and endeavour to protect and enhance nature, our growing business and the communities in which we work.
This translates into the company values:
Always deliver quality - We take pride in ensuring our product is of the best possible standard.
Do the right thing - From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we sustain with client, everyone knows exactly what is going on. At the centre of everything is a trust that has been built over years of excellent service.
Nurture the future - From the herbs and salads that are grown on site. To the investment in facilities and the growth of the business. We're focussed on always improving our offer and ourselves, leading the way forward.
* Vitacress Salads St Mary Bourne, Lower Link Farm, Lower Link, Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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