Category Manager | Staines
| Company: | Pilgrim's UK |
| Location: | Surrey |
| Salary: | TBC |
Purpose
The Category Manager is responsible for end-to-end category management from insight generation and opportunity identification through to partnering with customers and executing in the market.
Build trusted and collaborative relationships with our customers to influence positive change and drive long term and sustainable category growth. Help Pilgrims disproportionately win in the market by leading the category agenda. Elevate category conversation with our customers through a breadth of wiring within our retailers. This role will focus on two customers and work with other customers in line with business needs.
Be the outspoken voice of our shopper and customer within the business to create triple win opportunities (Category, Customer, Pilgrims). Live our Determination and Ownership values. Drive the category agenda and make category first thinking infectious within the cross-functional team. Be an agent for positive change, motivate others to join the mission.
Key Accountabilities
- Translate data from multiple sources into clear actionable insights and compelling sell stories to deliver these opportunities.
- Build collaborative and independent relationships with key customer stakeholders to become a trusted partner and influence change.
- Embed our vision for category growth with key customers to drive thought leadership and drive positive change in the market.
- Lead on total category range reviews with our customers.
Skills & Knowledge
- Experience in FMCG roles.
- Experience of working with External Agencies to deliver projects.
- Strong, impactful, and effective written and verbal communication skills & storytelling.
- Strong relationship building skills & cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to develop trusted and influential internal and external partnerships.
- Strong analytical skillset and high levels of comfort working with a wide range of data sources.
- High levels of curiosity and driven to understand the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’.
- Distils insights and translates them into learnings that can be clearly communicated.
The company
Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.
Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.
Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.