Category Manager

Vacancy: Category Manager (12 month FTC)

Locations: Leeds

Why Greencore?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

We are excited to offer an excellent opportunity on a fixed term basis for a Category Manager to oversee customers within the Convenience and Out of Home arena.

What you'll be doing

As a Category Manager, your role will be to become a trusted advisor for our customer base by following the category management process to utilise customer and consumer data, to shape strategic recommendations and action plans to improve category performance and deliver on joint business plan targets.

• Build, analyse and interpret category reports to generate actionable insight which will improve business and customer category performance
• Utilise category insight from multiple data sources (internal company and retailer data, continuous data providers and broader market intelligence) to create strategies and plans which utilise the appropriate marketing mix to respond to the current category performance
• Present category recommendations to category peers within the customer organisation to influence their decision-making to adopt the strategies and plans
• Follow the customer’s cycles of the category marketing process to ensure that all plans have been correctly assessed, approved and implemented
• Manage the ongoing category relationship with the customer to provide a single point of contact to ensure consistency of communication
• Work with commercial team to feed in category plans enabling joined up/aligned and meaningful customer plans to be created
• Build extensive networks across merchandising, supply chain, marketing, store ops etc to speed decision-making/action implementation
• Input into process (from insight) from identifying opportunities through to developing shopper-led selling stories

What we’re looking for

• Understanding of the retail and/ or coffee shop environment
• Understanding of the principles and tools of category management
• Strong data manipulation and Excel skills, with a keen eye on attention to detail. Be able to identify where data has changed, and explain why
• Ability to prepare and deliver effective and action-led presentations
• Previous customer-facing experience
• Previous category management or category analyst experience

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform