Head of Category: Grocery and Value Retail (6 months FTC/office-based)

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At Britvic, we make, market and sell great-tasting soft drinks, offering refreshments to billions of consumers worldwide. We're constantly refreshing and reimagining our business, ensuring it's innovative and evolving while staying true to our vision - to be the most dynamic soft drinks company, creating a better tomorrow. We've been home to iconic brands for over 100 years, and our relevance is anchored in an authentic heritage. Delivering our vision is down to the passion of our people, and we create conditions for everyone to thrive and grow. From our international supply chain and network of partners, we export to over 100 countries, offering opportunities for our people and businesses to grow.

About the Role

To achieve our vision of being the most dynamic, creative, and admired soft drinks company, we need a deep understanding of our category, its growth potential, and how our brands can capitalize on opportunities while engaging our customers.

We seek thought leaders with a growth mindset who can identify transformational growth opportunities with retail partners and inspire their team, commercial colleagues, and customers to seize these opportunities.

This role is crucial for executing our category vision and delivering our annual operating plan (AOP), requiring strong collaboration with category strategy, marketing, commercial growth, and sales teams.

You will join team of 9 people and have 6 direct reports. This role is reporting to a Category & Retail Delivery Director and is an office-based secondment with a fixed term contract of 6 months.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategies to maximize category growth opportunities across macro space, range, fixtures, merchandising, availability, and food-to-go.
• Lead the category team in delivering inspiring category growth plans and customer partnership agendas across the full customer estate.
• Champion the use of customer data, especially loyalty data, to add value to strategy and initiative development.
• Manage the allocated category development budget and team expenses budget effectively.
• Set clear performance objectives, coach and develop the team, and drive improvement in employee engagement scores.

About You

• Extensive FMCG experience, with demonstrable success in the Grocery and Value Retail channel.
• Practical experience in category management processes and managing strategic customer relationships.
• Strong strategic thinking, commercial skills, and the ability to develop a clear category vision.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and people management skills.
• A growth mindset, with the ability to lead transformational change and unlock the best in others.
• Degree or equivalent qualification
• Relevant certifications in category management or related fields are an advantage.

Key Behaviours
• Growth mindset
• Transformational/breakthrough thinker who is able to lead others on this change journey
• Cuts to the heart of the problem getting to solutions with creativity and speed
• Takes commitments seriously and does what they say they will do
• Has open and authentic conversations - radical candour
• Builds strong relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders