About The Role
Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!
At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
Enhanced pension scheme
Private health scheme
Employee discount scheme
Experience annual pay reviews
Profit related pay
Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity
We are currently recruiting for 2 Category Managers due to growth with our Category Teams. In these roles, you will be responsible for providing category expertise to create and deliver differentiated category plans realizing growth for customers and Samworth Brothers. Demonstrating continuous best in class category management principles and working with cross-functional teams to elevate the shopper experience and ensure Samworth Brothers Category are the team of choice.
Key Responsibilities
Evaluate the market, category, customer, shopper, consumer, and key initiatives to create and maintain category reports and presentations with actionable insights.
Collaborate with cross-functional internal and external teams, ensuring insights are at the heart of all decision-making and initiatives including the innovation pipeline.
Delight and engage key customer contacts (Tesco) with compelling stories and activities to ensure Samworth Brothers are the category partner of choice.
Line manage and develop the Category Executive team who are responsible for capturing market and category intel, shopper behaviour, and reporting.
The Ideal Candidate
We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:
Experience in a Category Management focused role within FMCG.
Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders that are both internal and external and is a multitasker who works well both independently and as part of a team.
Highly data literate and able to demonstrate examples of this in current & previous roles.
An individual who is a self-starter and someone who is comfortable operating cross-functionally.
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.
Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!
About Us
We are a fourth-generation family business producing high-quality own-label products for many of the UK's best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.
At Samworth Brothers, we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.
Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.
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