Junior Category Manager

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Job Description

Would you like to reshape your career and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application!

We are looking to recruit a Junior Category Manager as we expand our UK Category Management team

Your responsibilities:

Working in a busy Commercial team you will be supporting the Category Manager to :

• Build trusted category partnerships with key retail customers
• Understand category performances and assist in the development of insightful category recommendations
• Deliver compelling customer specific category and shopper strategies using data, trends and insights
• Deliver customer category presentations for monthly, quarterly, and bi-annual reviews
• Monitor, track and report on global category and personal care trends identifying areas of interest
• Monitor and track consumer reviews and acceptance of key PL and branded products
• Track market changes and understand the implications for PL customers
• Coordinate online consumer insight projects to establish usage and attitude to concepts, claims and design.
• Coordinate consumer panel tests to validate product claims, product acceptance, new product specifications

Your profile:

• Commercially aware and adaptable with an eye for detail
• Ability to work under pressure and manage workload to agreed deadlines
• Excellent communication and relationship skills
• Good Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience with Kantar, Nielsen, IGD, Circana and other data agencies an advantage
• Knowledge of retailer systems an advantage (Dunnhumby, Coop HIVE, Retail link) an advantage
• Ideally 2+ years experience in an FMCG environment in a category or marketing role

What else we offer:

Attractive remuneration: We pay an attractive competitive salary and compensation package.

Flexible and mobile working: We offer you a hybrid work model.

Company contribution pension scheme and life assurance: Thinking about tomorrow today. For the time after your professional life, we support you with a pension scheme and a life assurance.

Company sick pay: The health of our employees is important to us, we offer company sick pay.

Discounted staff sales: We offer discounted hygiene paper for sale to our employees.

Workplace health promotions: That is why we offer a range of support mechanisms including Occupational Health, Employee Assistance Programme, Physio Therapy, and Health weeks.

About Us

The WEPA Group is a future-oriented European family business specialising in the production and distribution of sustainable hygiene paper. WEPA offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that provide a safe feeling of hygiene and contribute daily to the well-being of millions of people. With 4,000 employees, the WEPA Group manufactures hygiene products such as toilet paper, paper towels, tissues and napkins at 14 European sites.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years. We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We are convinced of one thing:

our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.