Category Analyst Jobs

About The Company
Our client is a UK-based family business with over 30 years of award-winning experience in creating, rolling out and managing bespoke customer food-on-the-move solutions. Their customers include a selection of blue-chip companies in various industries, such as Shell, National Trust, Circle K, HMS Host-Autogrill and Dunelm. We offer a range of consultancy services drawing on our in-depth knowledge of the food-on-the-move sector and have managed projects in South Africa, South & North America, Asia, and Europe.
Although many of the team are based across the globe, we regularly get together to review performance, share best practice, and socialise! As well as working in a challenging and fast-moving environment, we believe it’s important to have a big chunk of fun and no day is ever the same at the company.
About The Job
The role will involve:
Our clients customer Food & Coffee Category includes a core offer of ‘Coffee + Sandwiches’ in the majority of stores, supplemented by Hot Dogs in 25% of the estate and the introduction of Pizza & Chicken etc in a smaller number of stores.
There are a handful of legacy sites within the estate, including a stand alone Coffee Shop that are way out performing the network average with credible sales of Food-to-go by delivering 50% of the current total turnover.
As a key destination category within mobility, there is significant investment, focus and drive to improve, develop and grow the offer to rapidly reach triple digit growth and account for a significant share of the NFR proceeds.
As such the Foodservice Category Team are expanding and requires a dedicated analyst role to track and understand the full profitability of the most complex categories in convenience retail due to the additional labour requirements and necessity to invest in waste to ensure availability to drive sales.
Key Duties
Providing sales and waste reporting and analysis both routine and ad hoc for the Foodservice Category Management Team
Key Responsibilities
Provide timely reporting & insights on the Food-to-go Category including:

• Promotion Forecasting, Tracking and Post Implementation Review
• Category Sales & Margin Performance
• Waste Budgeting, Reporting, Control and recommendations

This will be delivered by;

• Understand the sales profile by SKU, day of week and time of day. Also gain insights on who the core customer is purchasing these products.
• Understand the manufacturers and supply chain partners
• Getting an understanding of the staffing, skills required and labor cost
• Understand the menu and raw material costs to detail the ‘net margin’ including any wastage and direct labor

Using the above insights, develop clear recommendations and follow up on the following

• Feed in to the category plan, with sales, waste and margin targets which are compiled weekly to track profitability.
• Create a financial sales & margin target/forecast for existing sites and future modelling for new/refitted sites
• Weekly detailed reporting on sales performance and profit for both existing and future sites
• RoI for Food service equipment used on site.

Requirements
Qualifications (academic and work-related)
Essential

• Educated to a university level standard
• Full driving license

Preferred

• Master level in Marketing, Data Analysis, Data Science, Management or Business Administration

Experience

• Familiar with retail intelligence agencies (e.g. IGD, KANTAR, CMA, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of a P&L and balance sheets
• Food & Retail industry experience would be an advantage
• Experience in managing complicated data set

Skills & Behavior

• Knowledge of marketing principles and category management fundamentals
• Proficient in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Understanding of data analysis and forecasting methods
• Strong commercial awareness with a strategic understanding over P&L delivery
• Able to deliver engaging presentations
• High level of attention to detail

BenefitsCompetitive basic salary + 20 days holiday + your birthday off
HOURS: 35 Hours per week. Generally, 9am to 5pm but some flexibility as due to the time difference with UK cross over is limited inside of standard working hours.