Brakes are recruiting for a Senior Category Manager - Meat & Poultry to join the Merchandising team on a 9-12 month fixed term contract, reporting into the Category Merchandising Director.
As the Senior Category Manager – Meat & Poultry, it is your responsibility to develop and deliver a category plan that supports range development and delivers in-year margin budget (e.g. range management including NPD; promotions; cross sell; customer marketing activity and pricing). Deliver and evaluate brilliant category insight of total performance. Ownership of category presence in all customer and sales communications, including online to raise the profile of the category internally and externally. This role would suit a candidate with rounded commercial experience within a Head Office Retail, Foodservice or a blue-chip food manufacturer environment.
We are offering a hybrid contract with 1-2 days a week in our Ashford, Kent office, so you will ideally be located in the Southeast/London. Flexibility will be needed for team and supplier meetings across the UK, so a full, clean driving licence is required.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
About you:
The successful candidate will be results-based with a demonstrated track record of applying financial, commercial or procurement skills to a range of business-related objectives, such as delivering cost savings or enhancing the quality of services provided to businesses. A high level of commercial ability is crucial for the role, combined with relevant commercial sourcing and / or category experience across a choice of categories and having experience of driving sales and margin. Ideally, you will have experience with customers and internal insight and data analytics to make fact-based decisions and create effective customer offerings. Be comfortable using consumer insights, competitive assessment, pricing, promotional planning, and financial analysis. You must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office including Excel, (VLOOKUP, Formula, Pivot Tables) and PowerPoint and have experience of using Tableau. It is desirable for candidates to hold a professional Qualification in Marketing, Category Management, Merchandising or CIPS.
What you will receive:
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