Category Development Manager (Wine Jobs: Sales & Marketing)

Enrich Your Everyday

At Accolade Wines, our purpose is to enrich everyday moments through our amazing wine brands. It goes without saying  that everything we do as an organisation and as individuals is in service of fulfilling this purpose.

As one of the world’s leading wine companies, our award-winning portfolio includes loved brands such as Hardys, Grant  Burge, St Hallett, House of Arras, Petaluma, Banrock Station, Mud House, Jam Shed, Tatachilla, Brookland Valley and  many more.

The driving force behind our business is our people, their expertise, their passion and their professionalism. With over 1,400 dedicated employees in Australia, the UK, Europe, Asia, South Africa, New Zealand and North and South America, it is our teamwork that sets us apart.

Category Development Manager

Competitive salary dependent on experience plus excellent benefits and staff wine allowance.

About the role and location

We have a new opportunity for a Category Development Manager to join our Category & Insight Team at our UK Head Office in Weybridge, close to the train and town centre, with free parking on site.

About the role – Key Accountabilities

•    Design and deliver a short to medium term category activation plans within designated customers on our focus categories across range, merchandising and promotions.
•    Utilise the full suite of insight sources to identify the key drivers of category performance and highlight the risks and opportunities to our priority customers.
•    Leads elements and is integral part of the creation and delivery of the organisation's category vision
•    Work with the Brand, Insight and Sales teams to create compelling category selling stories
•    Own the relationships on a day-to-day basis and be proactive at managing the needs and expectations of immediate internal and external customers
•    Influence both internal and external stakeholders through insight
•    Develop critical category business questions  with the customer to stimulate relevant research

About you

You will be of Graduate calibre with Category development and / or Insights experience
Ideally you will have at least 3 years experience in a Marketing or sales role in an FMCG environment
You will have the flexibility to work out of office hours to accommodate the occasional call with our Australian colleagues and have the ability to travel to The Park site near Bristol,  if required.

About the offer

In addition to a competitive salary we also offer a fantastic range of benefits including medical cover pension scheme and staff wine allowance