This is a great opportunity to join a growing Nottingham based business. A great bunch of people and lovely office, with some home working too!
About the Role: The Junior Account Exec will be responsible for supporting the key internal business functions providing analysis, intel and customer and consumer insights. This person will also deliver insights and expectations for distribution, range, space and rate of sale driving propositions. The main objective is to drive category growth for our customers and to further strengthen our brand proposition in the category.
This role is central to our planning and execution of commercial initiatives, therefore strong analysis and interpersonal skills are required.
Key Responsibilities:
Support the Sales team in the development of rolling category plans.
Support the execution of the category plan. To support strategies to maximise range, primary space, location, availability and macro space incorporating all category growth levers.
Support the sales team in the creation of distribution, range and space targets by customer that deliver against market maps and regularly measure progress against these.
Support the sales team in the delivery of range review materials (such as planograms) where required.
Support the sales team to ensure tactics within the plan are executed in store. Evaluate the impact & ensure that learnings feed into future planning & activation across the channel.
Work with the sales team to develop category selling stories and tailor them for our customer, incorporating customer level shopper / consumer insight.
Skills (desirable)
Must have excellent analytical and Excel/spreadsheet skills
Strong communication and facilitation skills (written & presented)
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop relationships with key stakeholders
Demonstrable capability of applying category management thinking
An understanding of category management principles
Knowledge of external market information (Nielsen / Kantar / IRI)
Strong organisation & time management skills to manage multiple projects to deadlines