International Category Manager - French Speaking

International Category Manager role working with a fun, well-known premium Food brand based in West London.

Inline with growing presence in international markets, namely France, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, the business require a bi/tri-lingual Category Manager to help develop their category relationships with leading local and international retail groups.

You will be supporting the sales and marketing teams with best-in-class category insight, helping them to identify opportunities for growth and NPD. Externally, you will be responsible for building and managing strong working customer relationships, using insight to influence range and merchandising plans at category reviews.

Desired skills and experience:

• Ideally 3 – 5 years Category Management experience within FMCG (agency-side experience will be considered)
• Strong insights experience (Nielsen/IRI/Kantar/GfK), generating and presenting actionable insights
• Customer facing experience, ideally working with Grocery buyers, and working cross-functionally with marketing and sales internally
• Full working proficiency in French essential, with additional German being highly desirable