Junior Category Manager – Tesco

Job Title: Junior Category Manager – Tesco (T1)

Location: Waltham (Hybrid)

Reporting to the Category Leadership Director and working in collaboration with the Senior Category Manager, you’ll be responsible for delivering best in class category leadership to drive growth. Using a mix of market, shopper and customer insights to identify category growth opportunities, you leverage & execute these through excellence in key Category Leadership initiatives, tactics and practices.

In this role, you will partner with the Senior Category Manager to co-create our picture of success and shape strategic plans that bring our category vision to life — delivering a triple win for shoppers, Tesco and Mars. You will play a key role in shaping range review recommendations, using a variety of data sources to land distribution and Perfect Store recommendations aligned to our channel and brand portfolio strategy. You will also take ownership of key category projects and lead the category relationship for Tesco Express.

What are we looking for?

• Degree educated or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent customer engagement skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and provide strategic category guidance.
• Experience in Category Management, with a proven ability to drive category growth and performance.
• Solid understanding of the FMCG industry and retail environment.
• Highly analytical, with the ability to translate data and insights into actionable strategies and customer-focused recommendations.
  
   

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Analyse a wide range of data into insight that creates foresight and recommended action which delivers the category triple win.
• High level of energy and proactive drive for results. Can be counted on to deliver seeking opportunities / areas for improvements for self and others.
• Delivers what they say they will, when they say they will and known for their accuracy
• Apply financial rigor and analytical concepts to make sound judgements and quick decisions with full company and industry knowledge.
• Able to influence action from others by understanding needs and articulating benefits, value propositions and business solutions that meet those needs.
• The ability to build strategic alignment with internal and external Customers through developing and leveraging collaborative relationships.
• Understand and contribute to established business planning processes and use available tools efficiently and effectively.
• Ability to build collaborative category relationships with internal and external customers.
• Co-operative, able to find common ground, encourages collaboration, a team player.
• Uses time and resources efficiently. Able to focus on the right areas and manage time effectively.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose-driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.