Category Manager - Crisps, Snack & Nuts
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Eccles, Wellingborough,or Watford, NN8 1LT |
| Cwmni: | Booker Group |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 25437 |
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Reporting to: Lead Category Manager Based: Wellingborough, Eccles or Watford
Job Summary Maximising the profitability of specified product categories, improving customer satisfaction, and cash profit.
We are looking to recruit a Category / Buying Manager role in the Retail Grocery team, looking after Crisps, Snack & Nuts, which can be based from either of our Eccles, Wellingborough or Watford offices.
- The development and implementation of category plans ensuring delivery of sales, margin and profit are met whilst maintaining continuity of product availability.
- Growth of own brand business, sourcing as appropriate to grow sales and margins.
- Annual negotiation with suppliers to ensure competitive terms year on year.
- Seek and react to customer feedback at every opportunity, shaping the category plan, whilst linking to the sell plan and customer satisfaction.
- Responds to customer queries and complaints professionally, at speed.
- Be able to communicate category plans and objectives for relevant product categories, ensuring understanding and buy-in is achieved.
- Ensure product area in the business centres reflect the principles of good, better and best.
- Working as part of the team to identify opportunities and develop or improve ways of working.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence championing diversity and inclusion.
Operational skills relevant for this job
- Exceptional communication & stakeholder management.
- Be able to work independently, to problem solve and make commercial decisions.
- Attention to detail, writing of reports, interpreting data and keeping of accurate records.
- Maintain knowledge of relevant markets and market developments.
- Ability to flex work approach.
Experience relevant for this job:
- Previous experience buying desired
- Extensive experience in working in FMG
- Have a proven record of working autonomously.
- Have experience of development and management of marketing campaigns.