Are you a confident and analytical individual with a flair for identifying market trends? We are working with a long established and successful FMCG family business focusing on offering a first-class service. They are looking for a Category Manager who can turn all category and shopper data into actionable insights with retailers. This is a full time, permanent role, based onsite every day in Banbury.

As the Category Manager you will be responsible for:

• Customer collaboration
• Cementing your position as key independent advisor with your buyers, building and maintaining strong relationships
• Becoming the category champion by not only delivering monthly updates to your accounts, but by proactively analysing performance, consistently providing an insightful and challenging view on the category
• Actively reviewing customer and market data, optimising range and space in with retail/wholesale partners
• Flagging risks and opportunities with distribution, to account managers and ensure robust recommendations on future promotional strategy or ranging, including the support of NPD
• Inputting into development and evolution of top-line category vision for customer use
• Data analysis - not just churning the numbers but telling the story behind them too
• Helping to train and coach the rest of the business to make the best possible use of data and insights, so being self-sufficient when it comes to understanding the data will be key
• Being outcome focused; results driven
• Ability to prioritise quickly in a fast moving, entrepreneurial environment
• Happy to roll sleeves up and get stuck in - this is a small team and we need people who are happy to do everything from churning the data to developing the best way to do things to set ourselves up for future growth

As Category Manager you must be/have:

• A great communicator and story-teller, comfortable building and presenting data, making firm and insightful recommendations as you go
• A proven track record of delivering results and can point to significant insight-led wins and projects helping drive value in your business
• Knowledgeable about how to build strong, long-lasting internal and external relationships
• Delivering customer-centric solutions to exceed business goals that benefit both parties
• Experienced working in category management within the FMCG industry, a bonus if you have experience from a Household, health or beauty category
• Comfortable using Kantar/Nielsen/IRI/Circana/Sales Out data
• FMCG experience in a category-based role
• Experienced in a customer facing category role delivering growth for customers is essential

You will be joining a fast-paced organisation which offers a culture of talent management, career progression, personal development plans and appraisals to keep you on track with your career journey. You will be offered a competitive salary of £45000 and up to 20% bonus (non-contractual).