Our client is a leading manufacturer in London who offer excellent career progression and job satisfaction. They are currently looking for a Category Executive to be based at their West London office.

Category Executive role:

The Category Executive reports to the Senior Category Manager and the company views category management as key to future success and the delivery of ambitious growth plans. This role is critical in allowing them to demonstrate our knowledge and leadership across both the preserves, chilled desserts and yoghurts categories and to drive the development of progressive partnerships with the retailers.

Category Executive Main tasks and responsibilities:

* Work with the Category Controller, Senior Category Manager & Category Managers to develop our Customer category relationships, across all product categories, in an unbiased and objective manner

* To work with the category team to be the voice of the shopper both internally & externally

* To work with the Category Managers on key retailer range reviews, in particular:

* providing examples of instore execution

* interrogating merchandising plans and recommending how to optimise them

* identifying & analysing key outcomes of range reviews as they go live in store, ahead of data availability

* in time to become the category point contact for specific channel insights

* To deepen & enable the category knowledge of internal stakeholders by:

* Sharing branded performance headlines as market data becomes available

* Publishing accurate & insightful category reports, monthly

* Sharing topline category overviews, deep dive insights or market news in a variety of meeting forums

* To give a clear view on the performance of both branded and own brand product launches:

* Tracking sales performance & distribution build

* Identifying successes to learn from

* Recommending corrective actions where necessary

* Understanding if each initiative brings incremental growth or grows through cannibalisation

* To support the exploration of new categories via instore and desk research to identify key insights & build knowledge

* To co-ordinate the capture of key instore events eg Christmas, Pancake Day

* To maintain the Retailer Range Review Calendars

* To ensure the integrity & accuracy of external data sources via monthly coding reviews, database management & regular liaison with our agency partners.

Category Executive Key Stakeholders:

Brand Team, Commercial Team, Product Development, Retailer buying, category insight, development & merchandising teams and Data & Insight agencies

Category Executive Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will have the energy and ambition to make a significant contribution to the future success of the business. They will thrive in fast paced, action orientated environments and relish new challenges, managing multiple priorities and working collaboratively with their colleagues to deliver a shared goal.

Background:

An FMCG background in UK.

A proven analyst and coordinator

Degree educated, desirable but not essential

Skills:

Strong communication

Excellent analytical thinking, attention to detail and interpretation of data

Hard working , highly organised and efficient

Team worker with good interpersonal skills

Able build positive internal & external working relationships

Ability to deal with pressure & multiple priorities

Working knowledge of excel & powerpoint

The Individual:

A 'can do' attitude, happy to 'roll up' their sleeves

Dynamic and creative with analytical integrity

Forward thinking and proactive

Has a natural curiosity to look beyond the brief & beyond the data, asking why?

Category Executive Company Package:

Market Leader in their products and sector

C £30,000

Health care single cover

Permanent Health Insurance

Company pension contribution

25 days holiday + Bank holidays

Company sick pay

4 x Death in Service

If you would like to apply for this role, please send an up to date copy of your CV to Kate Evans as soon as possible quoting reference GP286