In this role you will have the opportunity to support the delivery of category plans and insights for our Birds Eye UK & Ireland business. This role is a great foundation for learning the ropes of Category Management; you will be able to build strategic relationships with commercial, Revenue Growth Management and Marketing teams & be a pivotal contact in providing the necessary insight reports to make key business decisions.

• Develop a working knowledge of the Frozen Food Category including market segmentation and trends to enable more effective reporting
• Download and analysis of monthly data sources (EPOS/Kantar/Nielsen/Loyalty data)
• Provide Category Reporting Excellence with efficient and smart reports that enable the key factual performance insights
• Sharing category reports across the Category Development team, and to internal stakeholder where actions can be taken.
• Work with the Range Planning Manger to understand the basics of Micro & Macro space management across Frozen
• Creation of distribution and gap analysis reports to enable the team to identify and realising distribution and ranging opportunities.
• Work closely retailer specific data agencies to become a reporting super user where relevant
• Understanding of the Frozen Category Vision
• Ability to build a basic reporting presentation for regular and adhoc queries
• Use data analysis to show evaluation of market and category performance specifically around NPD and Range Review analysis
• Provide reporting support on an adhoc basis for key business projects

Essential

• Strong Organisation and Communication Skills
• Comfortable with data, analytical, curious, and inquisitive.
• Comfortable at working at pace
• Ability to present ideas, data, & insights
• Presenting skills
• Understanding of the principles of Category Management
• Passion for Frozen Food & the Grocery Market
• Of graduate calibre

Desirable

• Previous FMCG experience is desirable but if you are comfortable in a fast-paced environment and able to manage changing prioritise, this is not a pre-requisite.
• Experience in deriving insights from data (either through working with a data agency or in an insights role).
• Graduate who has been on a Graduate Development scheme in FMCG, retail or data/research agency