Job Description

Category Manager - Alcohol Ready to Drink
Location - Uxbridge
Contract - Permanent
Expectation:
This role is key to the delivery of ambitious growth plans in 2025 and beyond. The successful candidate will have the energy and ambition to make a significant contribution to the future success of the ARTD BU.
This person will have...

• Proven track record working as an effective Category manager with Grocery or AFH customers
• Previous experience working with Nielsen and Kantar data
• Can use data to tell a clear, compelling category story with call to actions based on the insight
• Ability to partner well cross functionally, with the likes of insights, commercial, shopper and RGM.
• Ability to build and sustain influential customer relationships
• Ability to show thought leadership in developing category growth strategies

Role scope:
We need this person to...

• To bring our category vision to life with our biggest strategic customers across GB
• To remain linked in as part of the GB category team community, sharing and contributing learnings best practice etc.
• Involved in company annual business planning and long range planning cycles
• Advise retailers through key decision making periods, effectively influencing range, space and distribution decisions.
• Identifying gaps and opportunities for growth and developing compelling sell-in stories
• Support the development of consumer/ shipper and category centric NPD
• To be the voice of the shopper both internally and externally
• Demonstrate they can work under pressure whilst being highly organised and efficient
• Be able to manage short term deliverables in parallel to developing long term strategic plans
• Be curious, eager to learn, have a "can do" and forward thinking attitude

Key deliverables:

• Support building out the opportunity for ARTD for tenders and renegs
• Review SOVI/ SOCVI pre and post range reviews
• Land aisle of the future principles and how they will drive growth for the category
• Create videos across AFH & grocery to demonstrate merchandising LOS
• Build shelf range review recommendations

Skills Required