Location: Hybrid - minimum 2 days in the office
Salary: Up to £30,000
What You'll Be Doing
Support category reviews and strategy, using data and insight to identify growth opportunities.
Analyse category and product performance, competitors and customer needs.
Use Excel (including Pivot Tables) and Power BI to manipulate, analyse and present data.
Help optimise product ranges across different customer channels and sectors.
Manage the Own Brand NPD and range-gap Bidflow process alongside Buying, QA and technical teams.
Identify opportunities across Own Brand, Branded and Exclusive Brands.
Work with customers and suppliers to understand market trends and product opportunities.
Create and coordinate category collateral, including digital and printed content.
Support category events, supplier engagement and industry/trade shows.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who is:
Analytical and commercially curious, with a genuine desire to understand what drives category performance.
Confident working with data, Excel and ideally Power BI.
Comfortable engaging with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Highly organised, proactive and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
A strong communicator who can influence and collaborate across teams.
Passionate about food, products and consumer/customer trends.
Previous foodservice, retail, FMCG or supplier-side experience would be highly beneficial.
For the right person, there is a clear potential pathway towards a Category Manager role in the future.
WR Logistics are a leading recruitment partner for the logistics and supply chain industry, recruiting across the UK, Europe, and the USA for permanent opportunities.
WR Logistics is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy
Salary description
£28000.00 - £31000.00 per year