Senior Category Manager - United Kingdom - Alaska Black

Description

Job Title:
Category Marketing Executive


Contract:
Permanent

Our client, one of the UK's leading food manufacturers based in East Yorkshire supply premium quality products to major retailers and premium food service providers.

Our clients' products are synonymous with great taste, exciting innovation and value.

To continue to build upon their quality food safety vision they seek to recruit a hardworking, positive, and enquiring individual who will challenge the norm to continually improve.

Reporting to the Category Marketing Manager you will assist in developing and driving category plans for specified accounts through category insight and consumer behaviour understanding.

Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 1-year experience working within a Category Management function in an FMCG business, you will have experience of using market data, (e.g. IRI, Nielsen, Kantar, Dunnhumby, Aimia), be able to communicate effectively and hold relationships internally and externally, have good analytical abilities and able to interpret data from multiple sources into trends, actionable insight, good presentation skills and can communicate category opportunities and reviews in an engaging and impactful way.

A self-starter able to use initiative to work alone also and work effectively in team environments and you will be enthusiastic, passionate with a can-do approach at all times.

Alaska Black are recruitment specialists, recruiting nationally across all roles within FMCG, Engineering, Finance, Human Resources and Senior Level Appointments.

We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that reflects our customer base and the communities in which we operate, creating an environment that enables everyone to fulfil their potential