Category Manager

Category | Leeds | Full Time | Permanent

We are Dr. Oetker. Since our beginnings, we have been breaking new ground. With pizza, cake, and desserts at the core of our business, as well as digital platforms and services – we create the "Taste of Home" for millions around the world with you.

Are you ready for a new challenge? Then take your next step.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Great news! We have a fantastic opportunity for a Category Manger to join our Category, Insights & NRM Team.

We’re looking for someone who can:

• Support the development & execution of the Cake & Pizza strategy together with the wider Category and Sales/Marketing teams.
• Understand shopper and consumer insight together with brand marketing in order to contribute to the future development of the Pizza & Cake category and the performance of Dr. Oetker brands within that category.
• Develop meaningful category relationships in specific retailers and become recognised as providing category leading insight.
• Deliver powerful category-based rationale and consumer shopper insight to maximise sales and shelf presence for Dr. Oetker brands in specific retailers.

As a global, family run business our culture is really important to us. All of our employees are inspired and motivated to create a competitive advantage in the market place for our customers and consumers, whilst having fun at the same time!

A career at Dr. Oetker will provide you with:   

• The ability to deliver best in class insight to the retailers and the business by following Dr. Oetker’s category guidelines and focussing on insight to action.
• Contribute to brand reviews and innovation process ensuring category insight is an integral part of the development process for a specific sub brand.
• Establish regular and positive category relationship with specified customers, maintaining our reputation as the experts in the relevant category, encouraging the development of joint category initiatives and planning
• Being able to develop category relationships with specified retailers to ensure that Dr. Oetker is recognised as the source of impartial expert opinion within our categories across commercial; marketing; category and merchandising personnel.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Communication & relationships – You’re a natural people connector with strong interpersonal skills, able to build trust and positive relationships at all levels. Experience in a corporate office environment is essential.

• Drive & initiative – You’re organised, proactive and thrive on taking ownership. You use data well and turn this into actionable insights.
• Challenge & Influence – You are confident in challenging & influencing with confidence at all levels across the business.
• IT skills: You are highly competent in Microsoft Office app’s such as Excel and Powerpoint, as well as data systems such as Circana, Nielsen & Kantar. Experience in retailer data systems would be a great advantage.

The role will be based from our Leeds Head Office (Thorpe Park, Leeds) and we are currently working to a hybrid working model where 2/3 days per week are home working. You do need to be able to commute to our Leeds Head Office, Leyland Production site and other external locations for face to face collaboration and to meet business requirements.                     

WHAT WE OFFER

The Category Manager role offers a competitive salary alongside many other benefits including;

• Company car or car allowance
• Hybrid working pattern (minimum of 2 days a week office based)
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Free life assurance 4x annual salary
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme (3% employee contributions, 6% employer contributions)
• Private health care provided by Bupa (single cover)
• Health Care Cash Plan Scheme (provided by Bupa)
• Annual healthy heart MOT’s
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• State of the art office environment with free wifi, tea, coffee, fruit and snacks
• Onsite free car park
• Employee referral scheme (£350 per referral, you’ll want to tell your friends and family all about us!)
• Incentivised employee suggestion schemes
• Employee loyalty scheme, recognising length of service milestones at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 years and beyond
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye test vouchers
• A great place to work and access to our cake & pizza products!