Category Manager - Wine (on trade)
| Posting date: | 04 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 September 2025 |
| Location: | Equity House, Irthlingborough Road, Wellingborough,, NN8 1LT |
| Company: | Booker Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 26918 |
Summary
Reporting to: Lead Category Manager Based: Equity, Eccles or Watford
We\\'re on the hunt for a passionate and commercially savvy Category Manager to lead the charge in our Wine category a key part of our dynamic Alcohol team
This role can be based from any of our offices in Equity, Eccles, or Watford - giving you the flexibility to choose the location that works best for you. We also offer a hybrid working model, allowing you to combine the benefits of office collaboration with the convenience of remote working.
Job Summary Maximising the profitability of specified product categories, improving customer satisfaction, and cash profit.
- The development and implementation of category plans ensuring delivery of sales, margin and profit are met whilst maintaining continuity of product availability.
- 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, supplier or internal queries professionally, at speed.
- Be able to communicate category plans and objectives for relevant product categories, ensuring understanding and buy-in is achieved.
- Ensure my product area in the business centres reflect the principles of good, better and best.
- Working as part of the senior team to identify opportunities and develop or improve ways of working.
- Leadership of the category team, manage performance and have effective succession plans in place supporting Booker in ‘Making Everyone Welcome’ and A Place to Get On’.
- 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 in buying desired
- Extensive experience in working in FMG
- Have a proven record of working autonomously.
- Have experience of development and management of marketing campaigns.