Category Manager

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Category Manager, West London - 3 Month Contract

Currently seeking an experienced Category Manager to join a highly reputable FTSE100 company.

This role will be to proactively develop and sustain an independent and continuous category relationship with the specified customers to ensure effective development of the category which is to the benefit of the business, their customers and ultimately their consumers. To undertake research and analysis of market/shopper/consumer/customer information to gain category insights.

The role holder will need a good understanding or all elements of Category Management.

As the Category Manager you will have overall responsibility for accomplishing the project objectives, these being;
- Work with Retailer to co-develop and continually drive Category Vision, Drivers and Tactics.
- Work with Category Controller and Commercial colleagues to Identify and quantify the drivers of category growth
- Work closely with Marketing to Identify required shopper behaviour changes and to implement the tactics that sit behind individual growth drivers.
- Work in conjunction with Commercial team to populate Tool kits ie ROS, SKU hierarchy etc.
- Develop and implement customer facing range strategies.
- Champion collecting & integrating ongoing insights/analysis (shopper, category, channel & customer) leading to compelling and selling commercial propositions.
- Ensuring that category plans are integrated understood and supported externally by key customers.
- Lead development and implementation of optimal ranges and planogram solutions for their brands within assigned category across key prioritised customers that meet the needs of the category strategy including post range review analysis.

To apply to the Category Manager role please send a CV or call to discuss.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
3 months+
(extension possible)
From
Lorien
Published at
23.03.2016
Project ID:
1097421
Contract type
Freelance
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