Category Manager - Retail
Mizkan Euro | Permanent
Ready to take your category career to the next level?
We’re looking for a commercially minded Category Manager to join our Sales team at Mizkan Euro.
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who loves getting into the data, understanding what’s really happening in a category and, most importantly, turning those insights into a compelling story that influences customers and drives growth.
You might already be working in Category Management, or you could be an ambitious Category Executive, Category Analyst or Insights professional looking for the opportunity to step up, take ownership and become more customer-facing.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll use consumer, shopper and market data to identify opportunities across our categories and brands, turning complex information into clear commercial recommendations.
You’ll:
Who we’re looking for
You don’t need to tick every box, and you don’t necessarily need to already be a Category Manager.
We’re looking for someone who:
Experience within an insights or data agency would also be very relevant. What matters most is that you’re comfortable with the numbers, confident communicating what they mean and excited by the opportunity to have greater commercial and customer ownership.
Why Mizkan Euro?
Mizkan is a family-owned Japanese food business with a history dating back to 1804. Today, we operate globally and are behind much-loved food brands and products across markets around the world.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to step up, take real ownership and develop from analysing the data to influencing the commercial decisions that come from it.
Mizkan Euro Ltd, is the European subsidiary of Mizkan Group, a family-owned, Japanese business started in 1804, which is the number one sushi seasoning supplier in the world. Headed by Kazuhide Nakano, Mizkan Group is a global business with over 3,700 employees world-wide and nearly 220 years’ experience in producing high quality food products.
The symbol and slogan of the Mizkan Group is inspired by the global company slogan of “bringing flavour to life”. The symbol, based on the Matazaemon Nakano family crest, shows three bars representing flavour, tang and aroma, while the circle represents the perfect balance of these characteristics in each of the condiments. The Mizkan name and corporate logo reflect the proud heritage and tradition borne out of nearly 220 years of ownership and market leadership of the categories in which it competes.
The Company operates under Two Principles – ‘Offer the Customers Only the Finest Products’ and ‘Continuously Challenge the Status Quo’. These principles allow Mizkan Group to improve quality and lead continuous innovation whilst pursuing consistent business growth based on ‘Customer comes first’ motto.
With headquarters in West London and manufacturing sites in Middleton, Greater Manchester and Bury St Edmunds, Mizkan Euro Ltd, with its turnover of c.£100m and over 400 employees, is still relatively new to the UK market but pushing towards bigger and bolder horizons whilst staying true to its Mizkan style management and governance which are core to its values and culture.
The Company has continued its worldwide trend in producing high quality food products by adding a number of iconic brands, namely Sarson’s vinegar (2012), Haywards Pickled Vegetables (2012) and Branston pickles, relishes and chutneys (2013). These brands form a portfolio, alongside a number of market leading Japanese sushi seasonings and more recently, OSU, apple cider drinking vinegar (2020).
