Marketing Category Manager – Bakery to Major Multi retail

Marketing Category Manager – Bakery to Major Mult retail

REWARDS: 55K basic Salary, plus car allowance and benefits

Location

• Leicester

Or

• West London

Unique Trainee National Account Manager position with a market leading European bakery manufacturer

THE COMPANY

We are a company who have been established for a number years in providing bakery solutions to the Foodservice sector.

Our extensive product range can be found in many in-store bakeries within retail across the UK – both with Major Multiple and discount retailers.

We are proud to lead the way in distribution and quality in this area – and our continual focus on NPD allows us to be at the forefront of innovation within the bakery category.

One of the products we are most well known and highly regarded for is our donut product range.

We are able to work closely with our retail customers to manufacturer bespoke products in this area suitable for their target consumers.

We pride ourselves on having a positive and supportive company culture – working closely together as a team to provide exceptional service to our client base a key bakery supplier to them.

Due to expansion and continued growth we are seeking to add new people to the team in commercial roles across several areas.

THE ROLE

This position is a key part of our marketing function – focusing on Category Management of our Donut range to Major Multiple and Discount Retailers.

A large part of this role involves responsibility for trade marketing – looking at market trends, and prospecting future changes in the sector and feeding this back to sales and NPD management internally to support with developing our product range.

Analysis on product performance within our range and seasonal bakery products is also a key aspect of the role.

This is a core role within our commercial team and you will work closely with NPD, Sales Management and the wider marketing team – in order to support with ensuring we consistently are offer the strongest, most on trend products within the category.

This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate who is passionate about food and enjoys taking full category ownership of a large food portfolio.

THE APPLICANT.

We are seeking to speak to candidates with an established background in Marketing with a Trade and Category management specialist parts to their experience…….and a passion for food!

• Candidates must be experienced B2B marketeers – preferably with experience working for a brand/manufacturer.
• Candidates must be able to demonstrate experience in trade marketing.
• Candidates with experience in marketing products into retail – particularly food – and possibly own label/own brand products will be of particular interest.
• Candidates must have an analytical approach alongside strong internal teamworking skills, a passion for food and be comfortable being office based and working remotely.