Category Manager
Division: Sales & Distribution
Location: Banbury
Are You Ready to Spot the Insights That Drive Growth?
DCS Group is looking for a Category Manager to turn category and shopper data into actionable insights that create real value for our retail partners. Reporting to the Senior Category Manager, this role is ideal for someone with 2+ years of experience in Category Management, ready to take the next step in their career. If you’re passionate about uncovering insights that unlock growth, we’d love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
Customer Collaboration:
* Build and maintain strong relationships, becoming a trusted, independent advisor to your buyers.
* Deliver monthly updates to accounts and proactively analyse performance to provide an insightful, challenging perspective on the category.
* Optimise range and space in retail and wholesale partners through active review of customer and market data.
* Identify risks and opportunities with distribution and rate of sale, making robust recommendations on promotional strategies and new product development (NPD).
Insight-Driven Strategy:
* Develop and refine a top-line category vision for customer use.
* Translate data into compelling narratives, training and coaching the business to maximise data and insights.
* Provide a results-driven, outcome-focused approach to category management.
* Lead by example in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial env...