Category Manager

Are you a confident and analytical individual with a flair for identifying market trends? We are working with a long established and successful FMCG family business focusing on offering a first-class service. They are looking for a Category Manager who can turn all category and shopper data into actionable insights with retailers. This is a full time, permanent role, based onsite every day in Banbury.

As the Category Manager you will be responsible for :

• Customer collaboration
• Cementing your position as key independent advisor with your buyers, building and maintaining strong relationships
• Becoming the category champion by not only delivering monthly updates to your accounts, but by proactively analysing performance, consistently providing an insightful and challenging view on the category
• Actively reviewing customer and market data, optimising range and space in with retail / wholesale partners
• Flagging risks and opportunities with distribution, to account managers and ensure robust recommendations on future promotional strategy or ranging, including the support of NPD
• Inputting into development and evolution of top-line category vision for customer use
• Data analysis - not just churning the numbers but telling the story behind them too

Helping to train and coach the rest of the business to make the best possible use of data and insights, so being self-su...