Drinks Category Manager

As a Drinks Category Manager is an exciting role all about working with our supplier partners and operations teams, providing category-based data and recommendations to maximise the drinks performance within the pub. This will include knowledge of key levers to pull in outlet to drive drink sales performance across range, pricing, merchandising and promotional activity; all contributing to Pub Partner’s performance against budget and the market. The Pub Partner division consists of over 900 pubs, including the core L&T business, alongside the expanding Franchise business.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

Your role as Drinks Category Manager

• Work closely with the Commercial Lead and the Commercial Manager to identify key volume and profit growth opportunities and then convert into initiatives and activity
• Work in partnership with our suppliers and the GK brewery, to deliver strong collaboration and delivery of the drinks strategy
• Collaborate with the PP Marketing team to deliver strong, joined-up promotional strategy that drives value for partners and delivers on supplier commitments
• Support at Ops team meetings and outlet visits with the BDMs, providing category focused advice to improve margin and volume
• Provide feedback on competitor and supplier activity to Ops teams and central functions, identifying where additional support, opportunities or training may be required
• Support the investment programme to influence the drinks category plan upon CAPEX spend
• Manage & develop the category management and supplier engagement of the online tools, including PP.NET & Ops Hub
• Collaborate with the Commercial and Finance teams to ensure that reporting available to Operations teams is focussed, accessible and easy to engage with

What you’ll bring… 

• A great team player who can successfully work across the business and key suppliers
• The ability to organise, prioritise and maximise your multiple objectives and workloads
• Highly commercial and results driven with a strong eye for innovation, you will have proven category management skills
• Strong and compelling communication skills, both internally and representing Pub Partners externally
• Excellent planning and management skills to ensure you can see projects from creation through to implementation, delivered right first time
• Solid level of IT literacy and analytical skills with ability to interpret data into performance insights and strategy / actions
• A customer first mindset, that’s able to convert category strategy into action