Category Manager, Food Service
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Haugengruppen
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Haugengruppen is one of Scandinavia's strongest FMCG companies, which promotes and sells internationally recognized brands, both as distributor and with their own brands. With their product portfolio, they enrich the culinary culture in Sweden, Norway and Denmark with international flavours and trends. The group has 300 employees in the Nordic countries and their mission is to be a leading and preferred supplier in all operating categories and focus on branded products of high quality.
Sales are made through the ICA, Coop, Axfood and Bergendahl and through the various restaurant wholesalers. Leading brands within the Haugengruppen portfolio are: Twinings tea, Caj P barbecue products, Blue Dragon Asian products, Patak's Indian products, Breton crackers, Go-Tan Indonesian products, Paradiso canned food and delicacies, Tipiak bulgur, Camp Maple Syrup, Lucullus sambal oelek and Thai chilli sauce, Canderel sweeteners, Ryvita crispbread, Törsleff's condensed milk, preservation Atamon products and the like.
With a new CEO in place since beginning of 2017, the company is going through an interesting development with a clear vision to be the leader in introducing and further developing exciting brands for both the retail food market, restaurant and catering, striving for market leadership in all their categories.
Role description
The Category Manager develops overall category strategy and manages its execution on a national level. As category manager you will be the link between sales and marketing and truly drive initiatives for the foodservice organization. You will be part of the commercial organization.
You will have full responsibility for a few of the brands and be the link between the principals/brand owner and the local Swedish market.
This new function will proactively drive initiatives for the brands and also for the entire category and develop new concepts. As you also will be the link between the foreign brand owners and the local market both internally and externally we are looking for a communicative person that stands on his/her own feet, easily navigates through hierarchies, be proactive in creating new ideas, diplomatically challenge ideas from brand owners and have a deep and profound knowledge of food and the local Swedish market.
The foodservice industry is driven by a few large distributors but this person will in very close conjunction, deep collaboration and true partnership develop new products, functionalities, packaging solutions etc. together with the Food Service Team and with the end client.
Responsibilities
- Execute and create new strategies for the focus categories.
- Initiate performance improvements focusing on quality.
- Drive common agendas with strategic clients and principals, as part of a key stakeholder team.
- Drive and pilot new category and shopper solutions to get better insight about the focus categories.
- Lead national category networks.
- Develop assortment strategies based on category insights.
- Analyse focus categories to enable future growth.
- Reporting Brand performance to stake holders.
- University degree in nutrition, food production, health or equivalent.
- Plus five years of experience from the food industry.
- Proven track record in sales and business development.
- Passionate and knowledgeable about food.
- Good at establishing, maintaining and growing relationships with suppliers and clients.
- Skilled negotiator.
- Very good presentation skills and pedagogical.
- Self-propelled and driven.
- Outgoing and social.
- Team player