Graduate Category & Insight Analyst

Title: Graduate Category & Insight Analyst

Industry: FMCG - Leading Premium Food Brand - Essex

Location: Remote; with easy access to Romford Essex for meetings when required. You must be a car driver.

Hours: Monday - Friday. 37.5 working hours per week

This is a Permanent Graduate position with full training.

Benefits:

* Holidays: 25 days, Increases with service to 28 days.
* Additional leave of up to 10 days in the anniversary for long service milestones.
* Pension: Group personal pension, company contribution of 4%.
* Life Cover: 3 x your salary in the event of your death to your nominated beneficiary.
* Occupational maternity pay plus SMP.
* Accident Cover: Disability compensation Payment.
* BUPA cash plan: Individual Cover or Family. Employee has the option to increase the benefit.
* Employee Star Award.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Free lunches every day.
* Annual company BBQ.
* Annual flu vaccination.

Launch your career with a market-leading premium food company!

We''re seeking a bright, analytical graduate to join our clients dynamic Category & Insight team, reporting into the Category & Insight Controller.

The team forms part of the wider ''Mainstream'' team consisting of Sales Managers, Shopper Marketing & Ecommerce team. The team manage key retail partners across supermarkets, convenience stores, discounters and the online channel across the UK, Ireland and some key export markets.

Our Client''s vision is to be ''best-in-class'' at Category & Insight, something that will be achieved through a process of developing and implementing a strong category vision, category strategies and tactics. Key to this will be tailoring analysis and true insight by market, channel and retailer.

The role involves working in a fast-paced everchanging environment, requiring a pro-active & creative approach with delivery against specific timescales.

Key responsibilities will include category analysis / reporting to ensure the wider team and business have a clear, up-to-date understanding of the key trends in the category, the market, channels, retailers and competitors.

What you''ll do:

• Turn complex data into actionable business insights
• Analyse category trends across UK, Ireland and export markets
• Support strategy development for key retail partnerships
• Work in a fast-paced, results-driven environment

What we''re looking for:

You''ll need to be highly organised with an ability to manage multiple tasks and projects & a diverse workload, be pro-active, adaptable, action orientated and be able to use your initiative.

- Recent graduate with strong analytical abilities

- Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.

- Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key stakeholders and suppliers.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

- Results orientated with ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines.

- Strong analytical skills.

- Resilient, self-motivated and able to work well under pressure.

- Creative thinking.

- Pro-active approach.

- Agility and flexibility.

What we offer:

• Ground-floor opportunity with a premium brand
• Home-based working with office collaboration (Essex)
• Fast-track career development in FMCG
• Work with major retail partners and cutting-edge market data

Ready to make your mark in the exciting world of food retail? We want to hear from you!

Please note; our client does not offer sponsorship therefore you will need to ensure you have full rights to work in the UK before applying for this role. Please do not apply if you are on a graduate Visa.

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