(Freelance) Sr. Category Manager
Location: NetherlandsSIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Food organisation, based in Utrecht Netherlands.
In this role, you will be the ambassador of the category mindset and vision to shape the agenda and priorities with all our stakeholders. Your closest contacts will be the retail partners and internally account management, marketing and category counterparts. Specifically, in this role you will closely collaborate with the Category Lead to shape the category strategy in the different channels. You report directly to the Head of Category Management within Sales department.
• Define, communicate and activate the category vision and its growth drivers,
• Lead category management for the full dairy category and deliver core results through customers,
• Extend influence with customer contacts to support the delivery of our clients dairy initiatives.
- Good understanding of building the category vision & category growth levers management and you are able to interpret data in order to transform them into category growth plans.
- Knowledge of multiple source data (i.e. ACNielsen, Account Specific EPOS, Panel Data, Qual / quant research) and space planning software are a key advantage.
- Fluent in Dutch and English
Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Rowin van der Zwaan.
Role Description
As a Senior Category Manager, you understand what drives the shoppers in the dairy category and how we can optimize their path to purchase. You are the one connecting the dots between different (data) resources and you derive and define the right actionable insights. You work closely together with our retail partners and build strong relationships to grow this category.In this role, you will be the ambassador of the category mindset and vision to shape the agenda and priorities with all our stakeholders. Your closest contacts will be the retail partners and internally account management, marketing and category counterparts. Specifically, in this role you will closely collaborate with the Category Lead to shape the category strategy in the different channels. You report directly to the Head of Category Management within Sales department.
Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities within this role will be the following:• Define, communicate and activate the category vision and its growth drivers,
• Lead category management for the full dairy category and deliver core results through customers,
• Extend influence with customer contacts to support the delivery of our clients dairy initiatives.
Requirements
- Master Degree and at least 8 years’ experience in fast moving organizations, commercial experience is an advantage.- Good understanding of building the category vision & category growth levers management and you are able to interpret data in order to transform them into category growth plans.
- Knowledge of multiple source data (i.e. ACNielsen, Account Specific EPOS, Panel Data, Qual / quant research) and space planning software are a key advantage.
- Fluent in Dutch and English
Other information
Project: 4 - 6 monthsAre you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Rowin van der Zwaan.
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