Category Insight Executive

Office – Slaithwaite, Huddersfield

About the Company:

Thornton & Ross are one of the UK's fastest-growing, leading producers of household pharmaceutical products & own some of the country's most loved brands such as Covonia®, Hedrin®, Cetraben® as well as the leading disinfectant Zoflora®.  Many people in the UK will have a product from Thornton & Ross somewhere at home. We are also a trusted & reliable provider of prescription products, including emollients, bone health products & generics to the NHS with 100 years’ heritage behind us.

About the Role:

In this newly created role, you will support the sales and commercial teams across both the Consumer Healthcare and Rx divisions with high-quality insight and accurate, current data to help identify opportunities for Stada UK and our customers to efficiently meet the needs of a broad range of consumers and patients.

In this role, on a day-to-day basis you will:

• Manage and maintain key business performance reporting systems based on weekly category sales & stock data downloaded from online portals of our external suppliers, major retailers and pharmacy wholesalers for both the Consumer Healthcare and Rx divisions in Stada UK.
• Update and distribute key business reports measuring performance of our new products across both Rx and Consumer Healthcare divisions based on data downloads from retailer and distributor portals.
• Generate and proactively share insight from specific data systems & portals including for Consumer Healthcare from retailers’ loyalty card & sales databases and for Rx from patient & medication records. Learn how to master the different systems to help Stada UK gain the maximum benefits from our investment into these services.
• Visit stores, search online and use industry sources to monitor and track market retail price changes, promotions and new products by Stada UK main competitor brands across both the Consumer Healthcare and Rx divisions. Compile the results into clear outputs to help commercial teams adapt our plans in response.
• Create compelling output to help sales teams engage customers including by working with Category Mangers to build merchandising recommendations for Consumer Healthcare categories using planogram software showing the impact of our recommended changes in their stores.

About You:

At STADA we talk about diversity as Uniqueness. Everyone is unique and we recognise our differences as a strength. Our values of 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, thrive in a busy fast paced environment and have the can-do spirit that’s spearheading our success, bring those qualities, with the following:

• A recent graduate with a strong academic record (minimum university degree (2:1) and three A grade A levels).
• Career ambition to move into a commercial role within two years.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills and able to build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external third-parties.
• Good analytical skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• High degree of adaptability.

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:

• A competitive starting salary of £30,000.
• Excellent career opportunities to further grow career and gain wide and varied end business exposure working within our commercial teams.
• Hybrid working options (3 days on site a week) - our stunning head office is in a recently redeveloped, modern canal side mill setting in Slaithwaite, Huddersfield
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days leave.
• Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Annual bonus scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme