Sr. Category Manager in London

London Full-Time No home office possible

The Opportunity

With a mission to inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance goals, Glanbia Performance Nutrition is the world’s leading premium sports nutrition company, with leading brands such as Optimum Nutrition, Isopure, BSN and Nutramino in our portfolio. We are also a significant growth driver for the overall Glanbia group. As a values-led organisation, we also focus on driving sustainable business performance the right way.

The role of Senior Category Manager will be directly responsible for building customer relationship across all of our customer portfolio. An externally facing position, this role will build relationships via compelling stories and work to unlock new relationships at our retailers positioning Glanbia as Category leader. The role will look to inspire and engage retailers and therefore lead the direction of retailers thinking for the upcoming years supported with a category manager to provide the relevant toolkit to win externally.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate high influencing and engagement skills and have a proven track record of building strong retailer relationships from scratch

Responsibilities

Deliver best in class selling stories for our category and brands, which engage and inspire our customers to partner with us for growth.

Ability to inspire and engage through interactions.

Innovative, solution focused mind set and ability to drive collaboration across different functional groups to achieve goals

Passion to make significant contributions to GPN through continuous process & ways of working improvement

Execute short and long term strategies and activities consistent with GPN objectives & goals

To develop strong customer relationships within the structure of the business from commercial team, marketing and innovation

Work closely with sales and cat/shopper team on developing and tracking of sales fundamentals gains in-store (distribution, share of shelf, quality of shelf, activation buy-ins)

Work with retailers to become THE go to trusted partner for category recommendations and advice

Build strong relationships with key industry contacts

Represent GPN at customer events and forums

The Skills you will bring to the team

Experience of category management & proven track record of winning partnerships both internally and externally.

Drive to keep up to date in consumer and shopper trends

Proven experience of working in a fast paced, high growth environment

Proven experience of collaborating across key external stakeholders

Past demonstrable experience of building engaging, exciting customer strategy stories

Understands the different needs of customers

Ability to communicate and influence effectively

Good common sense and initiative.

Excellent inter-personal and communication skills.

Where and how you will work

The opportunity will be based in London withhybrid working arrangements available through ourwhich allows you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.

What we would like to offer you!

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and acompetitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary.

Contact Detail:

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Sr. Category Manager in London

Glanbia

Location: London

Sr. Category Manager in London

Sr. Category Manager in London

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