Role Overview & Mandate
Executive Summary
Do you want to be part of a fast-paced business growth journey? It’s an exciting time at STADA and as a...
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Do you want to be part of a fast-paced business growth journey? It’s an exciting time at STADA and as a global health care group with ambitious growth plans, we dedicate ourselves to providing solutions to people’s health and wellbeing. With a long-standing heritage and leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical and healthcare products rooted in pharmacies, we continue to support the delivery of our strategic vision of Caring for People as a Trusted Partner.
Role Purpose
This is a newly developed role as our team expands, to build trusted category partnerships with retailers through helping them understand their performance and developing recommendations that generate category growth as well as increase our market share.
Working closely with our sales and marketing teams, your commercial acumen combined with your strong analytical and relationship building skills, will help to drive our future NPD strategy and increase product listings with our retail partners. Keeping the shopper at the heart of the business, you’ll be able to influence internal strategy, from category visions through to innovation plans and execution in store.
About you:
At STADA we talk about diversity as Uniqueness. Everyone is unique and we recognise our differences as a strength. Our values Entrepreneurship, Integrity, Agility and One STADA ensure our uniqueness thrives, enabling us to care for people’s health as a trusted partner. Empower your Uniqueness, bring your whole self to STADA.
If you’re keen to add value and see results, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, enjoy working with teams across the business and have the can-do spirit that’s spearheading our success, bring those unique qualities, with the following skills and qualifications:
- Category management/Insight experience within a supplier, agency or a retailer and a passion for using data to understand consumer behaviour. You may currently be a high performing Category Analyst looking for your next career step or a Category Manager looking to broaden your existing skillset
- Highly developed analytical skills including good working knowledge of IRI/Nielsen/Kantar Worldpanel and Excel & Powerpoint
- Excellent stakeholder management skills both internally and externally with the ability to build strong relationships with key retailers such as Boots/Tesco.
What’s in it for you?
Rewarding our employees is important to us, which is why we offer a range of fantastic benefits, such as:
- Hybrid working options based in stunning and recently redeveloped, modern canal side mill setting in Slaithwaite, Huddersfield
- Excellent future sales and marketing career opportunities across both healthcare and hygiene hubs
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days leave.
- Company Pension Scheme.
- Life Assurance (up to 3 x annual salary).
- Annual company & performance-based bonus.
- Private Healthcare.
- Training and Development courses
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to our employees via our Employee Assistance Programme all year round.
Thornton & Ross is part of the STADA group. STADA Arzneimittel AG is a German Stock Corporation with headquarters in Bad Vilbel, Germany. The company focuses on a two pillar strategy consisting of generics, including specialty pharmaceuticals and non-prescription consumer health products. Worldwide, STADA Arzneimittel AG sells its products in approximately 120 countries.
