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Category Manager

Euro Projects Recruitment
Posted a day ago, valid for a month
Location

Solihull, West Midlands B91 3RX, England

Salary

£60,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Category Manager role focuses on managing high-quality FMCG baked goods for major UK retailers like Sainsbury's, Morrisons, and Tesco.
  • Candidates must have experience working with UK retailers and a strong passion for food, ideally with a background in category management or related fields.
  • The position offers a salary of £50 million turnover business and is flexible, allowing for potential part-time arrangements of four days a week.
  • This hybrid role requires 2 to 3 days in the office located in Coventry, with the possibility of remote work for the remaining days.
  • Applicants should possess a minimum of several years of experience in the food or FMCG industry and be driven to innovate and add value.

Category Manager

  • Passionate about food? Seeking Category Manager jobs, food National Account manager jobs or commercial manager jobs or similar in food / grocery / FMCG / retail ?
  • High quality FMCG baked goods (fine foods) dealing with large retailers Sainsburys, Morrisons, Tesco etc managing brands commercial focus grocery retail etc.
  • Must be a foodie. Must be passionate about food
  • £50million turnover business who supply fine foods to Harrods, Tesco, Waitrose, M&S etc.


Are you a Food or beverage or FMCG industry professional who has good experience of dealing with large UK retailers? Are you passionate about food and want to really make a difference with a newly created role? Are you seeking exciting FMCG jobs, food industry jobs but with a fast paced agile medium sized business with family values?


What we need for this Category Manager Senior Food Industry jobs role

  • Very flexible on your background we are aware we will likely need to pivot someone into this role possibly a category Manager, Brand Manager, Commercial Manager, National Account manager or Key account manager who understands driving growth with UK retailers
  • You MUST be a foodie passionate and inquisitive about food. It shines through in this business just how passionate they are about food, the provenance of food, traveland food from different cultures etc
  • You MUST have experience of working with UK retailers (ideally food but we are open to non food / wider FMCG / bev etc.)
  • Ideally strong category management experience / understanding
  • Desire, passion, inquisitive these are the key things we need
  • We might consider someone who is only able to do 4 days (so part time)
  • They are innovative you will be the sort of person that says have you tried this rather than weve always done it this way. You will be curious and seek to challenge and innovate
  • Their culture and whole business is about value add your mind-set will therefore be in line always seeking to add value
  • Their reputation is outstanding they value integrity and honesty above all else again you will share these values


This Brand manager jobs role / category manager jobs role is hybrid. 2 or 3 days per week in the office in Coventry and then hybrid work from home for 2 days per week. So candidates seeking food jobs in the Coventry, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwick, rugby, Worcester, Leamington Spa, Leicester, West Midlands sort of regions would be well suited


To apply for this category manager job, please contact Edward Smith at Euro Projects Recruitments Ltd.


Please note that if you are not contacted within the next ten days then your application, on this occasion, has not been successful. We thank you for taking the time to apply.

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