Senior Category Manager

<div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'><b>About Kerry</b></H2> </div><div>Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.</div></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'><b>About the role</b></H2> </div><div><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>To support our growth ambitions a new Senior Category Manager role has been created within the Category Team in IOI.</p><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;> </p><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>The purpose of this role is to drive thought leadership and unlock opportunities for growth within the Categories we operate in, both externally in the Irish Grocery Retail trade, internally in cross functional teams and with key stakeholders in the business.</p><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;> </p><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;> The role will involve day-to-day management of our Key Strategic Customers , You will build, grow and maintain profitable and long-lasting relationships from a Category perspective for Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.</p><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;> </p><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Championing the Consumer and Shopper, leveraging strategic thinking and demonstrating actionable insights are at the heart of the role this will include development & execution of leading Category Visions & Strategy with a disproportionate winning share for Kerry.</p></div></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'><b>Key responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><ul><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Manage relationships with priority & strategic Customers</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Review and validate key customer commercial activities for the customers category and deliver category recommendations for optimal distribution, range, space & merch layouts by channel aligned with customer strategies</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Development & execution of leading Category Visions & Strategy</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Identifying actionable insights to fuel our annual brand planning process across a portfolio of brands in Ireland.</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Proactively bringing the ‘outside in’, harnessing insights and disseminating them for action and business impact.</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Support the development of our Category Capability Framework</li></ul></div></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'><b>Qualifications and skills</b></H2> </div><div><ul><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Our ideal candidate will also be a dynamic team player that can build relationships and positively challenge to unearth and identify actionable insights that will drive value into our Business and our Customers Categories.</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Being able to flex and navigate a large network within Kerry, alongside the ability to work autonomously.</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Solid experience of working in Category Management and managing Strategic Customers across the Grocery Retail Trade.</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Previous experience in Category Management</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Highly analytical, comfortable quickly surfacing insights and sharing them in engaging ways with various audiences</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Brilliant communication skills and able to build relationships internally and externally with the trade.</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Skilled at working collaboratively and managing data agencies</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Expert working with Category software and portals e.g. Kantar, Dunnhumby, EYC, Talysis, Iri and Shopper Intelligence (all or most preferable)</li><li style=line-height 115%; font-size 12pt; font-family Aptos, sans-serif;>Proficient in excel and comfortable working with large amounts of data</li></ul></div></div></div><p style=margin0.0cm;font-size12.0pt;font-familyAptos, sans-serif><strong><span style=font-size11.0pt>Please note We do not accept CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies where terms of business have not been signed. Additionally, we will not consider or agree to payment of any recruiter fee under these circumstances. This also applies to CVs or candidate profiles sent directly to any Kerry Hiring Managers. In the event that speculative CVs or candidate profiles are submitted by recruitment agencies, we reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current or future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency.</span></strong></p>