Do you love food? Then you will love working here with this highly capable team. In the last 10 years this Group has seen outstanding year-on-year growth; so a real modern-day success story. Unlike many other businesses today they are even more versatile, focused and ambitious than ever before. Run as an autonomous business unit, they are part of a larger group, so career progression is inevitable for the right people.

The Role

With the company continuing to grow the Category team is following that trend. This role will report to the Category Controller. As well as to drive category growth in line with company objectives. Working closely with Sales & Marketing functions, this role will be very cross-functional, you will provide regular insights on opportunities within the market.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Educated to degree level
• Minimum 2 years Category Management experience (ideally within FMCG)
• Great analytical skills with a good working knowledge of data, such as; Nielsen, Kantar & SelfServe data
• Excellent communication & presentation skills
• Previous customer facing experience & a track record of relationship building

Benefits:

• Increased holiday with length of service.
• Option to buy more holiday.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity (Maternity is 6 months full pay after 2 years of service. 3 months full for 1-2 years).
• Free product
• Flexi week opportunity every year.
• Cycle to work.
• Electric car scheme.

Interested? If you wish to apply for this role, please click on the apply button with a copy of your up-to-date CV. Due to the high number of candidates applying who have visa requirements, we would like to provide advance notice that we are currently unable to progress with any candidate who does not have a full right to work in the UK without dependant or sponsorship requirements.

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