Drinks Category Manager

This exciting role involves working with our supplier partners and operations teams, providing category-based data and recommendations to maximize drinks performance within the pub. This includes knowledge of key levers to drive drink sales performance across range, pricing, merchandising, and promotional activity; all contributing to Pub Partner's performance against budget and the market. The Pub Partner division consists of over 900 pubs, including the core L&T business, alongside the expanding Franchise business.

Your role as Drinks Category Manager:

• Work closely with the Commercial Lead and the Commercial Manager to identify key volume and profit growth opportunities and convert them into initiatives and activity.
• Work in partnership with our suppliers and the GK brewery to deliver strong collaboration and execution of the drinks strategy.
• Collaborate with the PP Marketing team to deliver a strong, joined-up promotional strategy that drives value for partners and fulfills supplier commitments.
• Support Ops team meetings and outlet visits with the BDMs, providing category-focused advice to improve margin and volume.
• Provide feedback on competitor and supplier activity to Ops teams and central functions, identifying where additional support, opportunities, or training may be required.
• Support the investment programme to influence the drinks category plan upon CAPEX spend.
• Manage and develop the category management and supplier engagement of the online tools, including PP.NET and Ops Hub.
• Collaborate with the Commercial and Finance teams to ensure that reporting available to Operations teams is focused, accessible, and easy to engage with.

What you'll bring:

• A great team player who can successfully work across the business and with key suppliers.
• The ability to organize, prioritize, and maximize your multiple objectives and workloads.
• Highly commercial and results-driven with a strong eye for innovation, along with proven category management skills.
• Strong and compelling communication skills, both internally and representing Pub Partners externally.
• Excellent planning and management skills to ensure you can see projects from creation through to implementation, delivered right the first time.
• Solid level of IT literacy and analytical skills with the ability to interpret data into performance insights and actionable strategies.
• A customer-first mindset, able to convert category strategy into action.

We're all about rewarding our team's hard work, that's why you'll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution, as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands - as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we provide training and development at each level of your career.
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands - enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program - mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels - enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend - who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream - access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts - receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile, along with many more...