Marketing / Category Analyst

Marketing / Category Analyst  
Ossett, West Yorkshire  
  
The Company:  
  
Our client is a global food ingredients manufacturer. With a strong focus on innovation, quality and continuous improvement, they supply a diverse range of products to major manufacturers and foodservice.  
  
They are now seeking Marketing / Category Analyst to join the team in Ossett. The Ossett site manufactures food coatings systems, dry blends, bread crumbs and rusk products and continues to deliver significant growth year on year.  
  
The Benefits:  
  
- Highly competitive salary  
- Pension  
- Additional benefits  
  
This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives on food trends and creating exciting new product ideas for a wide customer base.  
  
You’ll be able to really have an impact, drive continued growth and support multiple departments with concrete category and consumer insight data.  
  
Your Role:  
  
As a Marketing / Category Analyst, you will be an integral part of the Marketing team and will champion the end user market such as red meats, pies and pastries.  
  
Your role will also involve:  
  
- Creating category and consumer insight reports and utilising these to direct R&D, Market Applications and Culinary divisions in new product development  
- Completing promotional activities for your product categories  
- Reporting to the EMEA Marketing Director  
- Undertaking some travel within the UK and Europe  
  
About You:  
  
To be considered as a Marketing / Category Analyst, you will need:  
  
- At least three years’ experience in a marketing or category management role, preferably within food manufacturing or similar  
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in a marketing or related discipline  
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, team working and organisational skills  
- Strong MS Office skills, particularly PowerPoint, Publisher and Word  
- A passion for food trends and consumer traits  
  
A degree in, or fluency in, another language, in addition to English, would be beneficial to your application.  
  
Our client is eager to hear from candidates who have held the role of Marketing Analyst, Category Analyst, Consumer Insight Analyst, Shopper Analyst, Retail Analyst, Consumer Trend Analyst, or Market Analyst.  
  
You would also be of interest if you have been a Category Manager, Product Manager, Food Product Manager, FMCG Product Manager, Marketing Manager, or Marketing Campaign Manager.  
  
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So, if you are an incredible marketing or category manager looking for your next challenge as a Marketing / Category Analyst, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.