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Category Controller - Maternity Cover

Salary Competitive
Location Staines
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This is a {Contract Type}, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Do you..

  • Have the ability to build and maintain relationships with key customer stakeholders?
  • Have previous experience with leading a team?
  • Have the ability to an agent of positive change and motivate others to join the mission?

Well we have a fantastic 12 month Maternity Cover role in our Category (Brands) department for a Category Controller!

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Car allowance (confirmed at offer stage)
  • Bonus % (confirmed with company announcement)
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Life Assurance 4x salary
  • Pension contribution up to 10%

Your Purpose

Leads the category management team across multiple categories (Sausage & Plant Based) as part of the wider Category function. Leads a strong opportunity focused culture (R&Os) through the team, focuses the team on the priority opportunities, provides the tools and supports the team to deliver against these. 

The Controller and team are responsible for end-to-end category management from insight generation and opportunity identification through to partnering with customers and executing in the market.

Your Responsibilities

  • Builds and levels up collaborative and independent relationships with key customer stakeholders to become a trusted partner.
  • Achieves through others, driving an opportunity focused culture and empowering the team to deliver business and category wins.
  • Develops stretching compelling and actionable Category Visions to fuel growth in our categories. Embed these with our customers and internally to drive thought leadership and drive positive change in the market.
  • Lead the functional and behavioural development of direct reports/team.

Your Deliverables

  • Deliver key physical availability KPIs to achieve budget ambition – Distribution Points, New Listing, New Customers.
  • Clear and compelling category vision with evidence of implementation.
  • Clear and compelling point of purchase vision.

Your Skills

 

  • Ability to lead and motivate a team while developing future functional talent.
  • Demonstratable history of delivering long term significant change with customers.
  • Strong, impactful, and effective written and verbal communication skills & storytelling.
  • Stakeholder management and influencing at different levels of seniority within the organisation.
  • Strong relationship building skills & cross-functional collaboration.
  • Ability to develop trusted and influential internal and external partnerships.

Essentials!

  • Experience in FMCG roles
  • Experience of partnering with and influencing UK Grocery Retailers
  • Experience of leading external agency relationships and agency management

 

Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.

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