Senior Category Manager

As brand leader, the Silver Spoon Company is the first choice for everyone’s baking and sweetening needs with an extensive range of baking brands, sugars, sweeteners and treats. Part of Associated British Foods, a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group, Silver spoon is a name you can trust & we are as passionate about our people as we are about our products.

To find out more about The Silver Spoon Company please visit our website: www.silverspoon.co.uk OUR BUSINESS:

Here at The Silver Spoon Company, we are more than just sugar. We have an exciting portfolio of brands that support the Home Baking, Sweetening & Desserts categories and a vision to become the true home of Home Baking in the eyes of our customers and consumers. This role plays a key part in meeting that ambition. As an inclusive employer we strive to create an environment where everyone can bring their best self to work and be supported to deliver so that we can all celebrate a successful growing business together.

The Role

As a Senior Category Manager at The Silver Spoon Company, you will play a pivotal role in driving category growth. Through your expertise in understanding shopper behaviour, consumer dynamics and market trends, you will be adept at translating these into actionable and successful plans for our teams as well as aligning these with the strategies of our retailer partners to create sustainable category growth.

This role is aligned to key strategic retailer partners and the ability to foster deep relationships with stakeholders is required. Alongside the key category deliverables of optimising space, range, merchandising, promotions and creating shopper & consumer focused initiatives, you’ll be able to tailor the Category Strategy for retailer success and take a lead role alongside your commercial counterparts in building credible long term account plans. To be successful, you’ll enjoy balancing analytical rigour with storytelling verve!

The Candidate

You’ll possess solid FMCG experience with the core ingredients of an adaptable, positive and resilient nature. A natural collaborator who is hungry for growth, you’ll possess strong story telling skills that unite teams, influence with credibility and flair, and ensure we are optimally positioned to win. We are looking for someone with a strong ability to connect the dots across insights, trends and data, who can synthesise these into compelling actions and who uses their excellent communication skills to align internal and external stakeholders.

Our ideal candidate will be passionate about personal development and being part of an energetic Category, Shopper & RGM team that thrives on continuous improvement to be better every day.