Are you passionate about thinking big and joining a team who are looking to accelerate the growth of our organic and natural Brands – Clipper Teas, Kallo and Mrs Crimble’s in the UK, while also doing good?
Ecotone is looking to recruit a UK Category Manager to develop category insights and working with the Customer Account Managers drive the narrative, positioning & opportunities of our Brands and company with Waitrose and DComm
Based in Camberley you will report to the Category Controller and be a member of the CommercialTeam
Here are just some of the exciting responsibilities you will be accountable for:-
- Understand and interpret market data and shopper measures to drive insight led thinking internally & externally
- Provide customer focussed insights and recommendations regarding shopper behaviour, ranging and merchandising
- Manage all five categories for Waitrose and Dcomm (Tea, Savoury Biscuits, Stocks, Free From cake, Dairy Alternatives)
- Establish relationships with the relevant customer contacts and attend customer meetings
- Be passionate about incorporating category thinking into all aspects of business
- Proactively highlight business opportunities/issues from a category perspective to the Sales & Marketing teams
- Develop account team vision with Sales team and track regularly (including NPD, range, distribution, merchandising)
- Develop strong working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders (esp. marketing, commercial, insights)
- Key user of Circana/Nielsen/Worldpanel/Dunnhumby & Microsoft Packages
We’re looking for someone who has an Agency, FMCG Category Exec or Retailer background and experience of the Convenience Channel would be advantageous
Additionally you will:-
- be a competent user of excel and powerpoint
- have experience of Kantar/IRI/Nielsen/DH/i2c (one of the list)
- be a team player
- be analytical with critical thinking with astute commercial judgment
- demonstrate strong written and verbal communications skills
- be able to build impactful presentations
- be flexible, adaptable and 'hands on'
What you can expect from us is to:-
- be part of a passionate UK team
- work for a company that genuinely cares and tries to do some GOOD in the world
- We have the highest B-CORP rating globally
- We were the first ever Fairtrade Tea company (we helped write the Fairtrade standards 30 years ago) and we are still the biggest fairtrade tea brand globally
- We have biodiversity at our heart & we want to do the right thing
And you’ll get a solid rewards package – salary, car cash allowance, private healthcare, a target-based bonus, pension – and a bunch of other benefits.
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Ecotone is looking to recruit a UK Category Manager to develop category insights and working with the Customer Account Managers drive the narrative, positioning & opportunities of our Brands and company with Waitrose and DComm
Based in Camberley you will report to the Category Controller and be a member of the CommercialTeam
Here are just some of the exciting responsibilities you will be accountable for:-
- Understand and interpret market data and shopper measures to drive insight led thinking internally & externally
- Provide customer focussed insights and recommendations regarding shopper behaviour, ranging and merchandising
- Manage all five categories for Waitrose and Dcomm (Tea, Savoury Biscuits, Stocks, Free From cake, Dairy Alternatives)
- Establish relationships with the relevant customer contacts and attend customer meetings
- Be passionate about incorporating category thinking into all aspects of business
- Proactively highlight business opportunities/issues from a category perspective to the Sales & Marketing teams
- Develop account team vision with Sales team and track regularly (including NPD, range, distribution, merchandising)
- Develop strong working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders (esp. marketing, commercial, insights)
- Key user of Circana/Nielsen/Worldpanel/Dunnhumby & Microsoft Packages
We’re looking for someone who has an Agency, FMCG Category Exec or Retailer background and experience of the Convenience Channel would be advantageous
Additionally you will:-
- be a competent user of excel and powerpoint
- have experience of Kantar/IRI/Nielsen/DH/i2c (one of the list)
- be a team player
- be analytical with critical thinking with astute commercial judgment
- demonstrate strong written and verbal communications skills
- be able to build impactful presentations
- be flexible, adaptable and ‘hands on’
What you can expect from us is to:-
- be part of a passionate UK team
- work for a company that genuinely cares and tries to do some GOOD in the world
- We have the highest B-CORP rating globally
- We were the first ever Fairtrade Tea company (we helped write the Fairtrade standards 30 years ago) and we are still the biggest fairtrade tea brand globally
- We have biodiversity at our heart & we want to do the right thing
And you’ll get a solid rewards package – salary, car cash allowance, private healthcare, a target-based bonus, pension – and a bunch of other benefits.
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