Position Snapshot

Business Area: Nestlé Purina

Customer Category Executive

Location Gatwick – Hybrid working (approx. 2 days a week in our Gatwick office)

Salary £40k - £45k dependent upon experience + potential bonus + 12 flexible days in addition to holiday entitlement + other fantastic benefits

Although this is a full-time permanent opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.

Position Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Customer Category Executive to join our team in Gatwick to support the Grocery Customer Category Manager team with all aspects of Category Management across a number of Grocery customers, including, but not limited to, delivery of Range Reviews, merchandising recommendations, promotional recommendations and insight generation to drive total category growth for the retailer and Nestlé Purina across instore and online channels.

A little bit about us

At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too. As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pets live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best loved brands including FELIX®, WINALOT®, GO-CAT®, BAKERS® and PURINA ONE & GOURMET, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners. We believe that pets and people are better together which is why our employees can bring their dogs to work at our Gatwick and York sites.

A day in the life of a Customer Category Executive …

Key responsibilities will include:

• Range and flow recommendations to retailers at range reviews, alongside merchandising recommendations to support the Category strategy as well as monitoring the success of the review

• Be the first port of call and a trusted source for Buying/Merchandising Teams for any category questions, insight and recommendations

• Complete regular performance updates both internally and externally, extracting insights from these sources and using them to continually bring opportunities for growth for both the customer and Purina

• Monitor new category executions (e.g. shop in shop) in other categories

• Execute merchandising activities to ensure optimisation of the Purina range, space and distribution

• Execute the fixture layout vision, collaborating with buyer/merchandiser to recommend and ensure appropriate flow, placement & space allocations

What will make you successful?

We’re looking for commercially astute candidates who have the following skills and experience:

• Strong data analysis and insight generation experience

• Category experience gained with the FMCG sector is desirable

• Ability to build strong relationships internally and externally within matrix /hybrid / multifunctional teams

• Ability to work under pressure to deliver exceptional results.

• Evidence of flexibility and agility, and use of initiative to solve challenges rapidly and often creatively.

• Love of learning, understanding 'why?' and ability to share this with team.

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

Job advert posting date 09/09/2024

Job advert closing date 23/09/2024

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

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