About The Role
Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!
At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
* Enhanced pension scheme
* Private health scheme
* Employee discount scheme
* Experience annual pay reviews
* Profit related pay
* Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity
As a Category Executive at Walkers Deli & Sausage Co., you will play a key role in driving data-driven decision-making by analysing market trends, shopper behaviour, and category performance. You will be responsible for delivering actionable insights to support the commercial and category strategies for the business, collaborating closely with both internal and external stakeholders. Your work will directly influence product range, merchandising, and activation across a wide variety of retail customers.
* Responsible for gathering market and category intelligence combined with shopper behaviour insights to support category decision-making.
* Reporting insights to internal and external stakeholders (e.g., Commercial, Insights teams, and Retail Customers).
* Regularly produce bi-weekly Market Insights Reports, covering seasonal reviews and identifying market trends for future product launches.
* Provide support in influencing in-store and digital merchandising and activations.
The Ideal Candidate
We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:
* Degree-educated.
* Experience in a Category Analyst/Executive role within FMCG.
* Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Proficiency in data analysis using tools like Excel and PowerPoint.
* Ability to interpret market and consumer insight data from sources like Kantar, Dunnhumby, IRI, and EPOS.
* UK driving license with flexibility to travel to stores across the Midlands.
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.
Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!
About Us
We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.
At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.
Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.
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