Category Manager

Passionate about food? Seeking Category Manager jobs, food National Account manager jobs or commercial manager jobs or similar in food / grocery / FMCG / retail ?
High quality FMCG baked goods (fine foods) dealing with large retailers Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Tesco etc – managing brands – commercial focus – grocery retail etc.
Must be a ‘foodie’. Must be passionate about food
£50million turnover business who supply fine foods to Harrods, Tesco, Waitrose, M&S etc.

Are you a Food or beverage or FMCG industry professional who has good experience of dealing with large UK retailers? Are you passionate about food and want to really make a difference with a newly created role? Are you seeking exciting FMCG jobs, food industry jobs but with a fast paced agile medium sized business with family values?

What we need for this Category Manager Senior Food Industry jobs role

Very flexible on your background – we are aware we will likely need to pivot someone into this role – possibly a category Manager, Brand Manager, Commercial Manager, National Account manager or Key account manager who understands driving growth with UK retailers
You MUST be a foodie – passionate and inquisitive about food. It shines through in this business just how passionate they are about food, the provenance of food, travel and food from different cultures etc
You MUST have experience of working with UK retailers (ideally food but we are open to non food / wider FMCG / bev etc.)
Ideally strong category management experience / understanding
Desire, passion, inquisitive – these are the key things we need
We might consider someone who is only able to do 4 days (so part time)
They are innovative – you will be the sort of person that says “have you tried this” rather than “we’ve always done it this way”. You will be curious and seek to challenge and innovate
Their culture and whole business is about value add – your mind-set will therefore be in line – always seeking to add value
Their reputation is outstanding – they value integrity and honesty above all else – again you will share these values

This Brand manager jobs role / category manager jobs role is hybrid. 2 or 3 days per week in the office in Coventry and then hybrid work from home for 2 days per week. So candidates seeking food jobs in the Coventry, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwick, rugby, Worcester, Leamington Spa, Leicester, West Midlands sort of regions would be well suited

To apply for this category manager job, please contact Edward Smith at Euro Projects Recruitments Ltd.

Please note that if you are not contacted within the next ten days then your application, on this occasion, has not been successful. We thank you for taking the time to apply.