Category Manager - Fresh (Bakery)
| Posting date: | 03 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 August 2025 |
| Location: | Equity House, Irthlingborough Road, Wellingborough,, NN8 1LT |
| Company: | Booker Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 26424 |
Summary
Reporting to: Head of Category Management Based: Wellingborough
Job Summary Maximising the profitability of specified product categories, improving customer satisfaction, and cash profit.
We are looking to recruit a Category Manager role in the Fresh team, which will be based out of our Wellingborough office.
- 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 fresh products desired.
- Extensive experience in working in FMG.
- Have a proven record of working autonomously.
- Have experience of development and management of marketing campaigns.