Category Managers - Spreads and Desserts

Category Managers (Spreads and Desserts), FMCG, Cambridge, £competitive plus benefits

THE COMPANY

Hain Daniels is an exciting and new start-up which has been formed by The Hain Celestial Group, the £750m FMCG food and beverages company, to be a leader in the health and organic foods market. This is an amazing and unusual opportunity to join an innovative, dynamic start up which has none of the risks typically associated with an entrepreneurial venture. Hain Daniels has acquired a portfolio of blue-chip brands including Hartley's, Sunpat, Robertsons, Rose's and Gales Honey which will act as a platform to developing their UK and European Business to rival their US business. If you are the type of person who has vision, wants to help create the future and likes doing things in a fresh and different way then this could be the company for you.

THE ROLE

Our client is looking for two experienced Category Managers to help drive category growth within the Spreads and Desserts categories respectively, in the UK. The key purpose of these roles is to develop and own the category management relationship across the respective category as well as to develop the overall Category vision, drivers and tactics, and to customise these as required using retailer specific insight.

YOU

You will be joining a start up with all commercial teams new to the business. This gives an opportunity to join a business at a stage where you can make a real difference and help shape the culture of the company. Other requirements are:

*Proven track record of relevant FMCG Category Management experience
*Experience in building category plans to commercial success
*You will be a Data Olympian with the ability to use numbers to tell a persuasive story.
*Ability to work with cross-functional teams
*Take responsibility for developing customer specific tactics to unlock the category drivers in relevant accounts
*Strong at developing relationships with customers in order to establish key category influencers, especially around range and merchandising.

If this sounds like the type of company you want to be part of and you have the skills and experience required then we would like to speak with you.

Please note only applications through Stopgap will be accepted

Category Managers (Spreads and Desserts), FMCG, Cambridge, £competitive plus benefits