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    4. Category Assistant Placement London 2024
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    innocent started with a simple mission: to make drinks that make it easy to do yourself some good. In 1999 we concocted a few smoothies in our kitchen and tested them on people at a music festival; today we’re blending every type of fruit & veg under the sun and selling drinks right across Europe.

    We have great ambitions: to show the world that you can build a successful business that cares about more than just profit, and to leave things better than we find them. We’re proud to call ourselves Europe’s favourite little healthy drinks company, but we’re still growing. And that means we need more brilliant people who share our ambition, to join in with the next, most exciting, part of our story.

    What you'll be doing

    This is a 12-month placement starting in June 2024, ideal for a placement student as part of their sandwich course. If you are interested in consumer goods, retailers and shopping habits or a career in the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industry this could be the one for you.

    First things first, what is 'category’? A 'category’ is the fancy term for a group of similar products, like the ice cream category, the cereal category, or our personal favourite - the juice category.

    Category management is all about analysing data to understand why people buy a particular category and brand, and how to get them to buy more. If you have ever wondered what happens to all the information from your loyalty cards, and think you would get a buzz from using data to help answer business questions, then we'd love to hear from you.

    As our category assistant you’ll become an expert in juice data, running weekly reports to help us track our sales performance and doing analysis to answer specific business questions, such as what time of year do our drinks perform best and when should we shout about them?

    What you'll have

    • experience in working with Excel: comfortable with large sets of data and how to use graphs, tables and formulas
    • curiosity: a burning desire to find out the 'why'
    • effective prioritisation skills: able to juggle multiple tasks and deliver on time
    • ability to play as part of a team: you get a buzz from helping others
    • an interest in FMCG and demonstrate an aptitude for understanding retail, supplier and shopper dynamics
    • strong analytical skills, able to manipulate data easily
    • great attention to detail, accurate information that is totally reliable
    • be a good communicator and networker as you’ll need to attend internal meetings to discuss big projects, get a wider business context, and to share some of your work

    What you'll get

    • £24,600 a year (the fixed amount for a placement)
    • to work within a high performing team
    • to understand how the business really ticks
    • to present in front of different stakeholders and see how your work influences others and makes a difference
    • exposure to some interesting projects

    You will help us to keep doing business the right way – keeping innocent one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work, using our B Corp status to inspire wider change, and reinforcing our culture of staying little as we grow big. At innocent, it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working together, that make us who we are. It’s why we love hybrid working – a mix of connecting in person and remotely.

    We’re also aware that the world is changing, and we all want and need different things from our work and home lives. So, if you need to walk the dog, go to the gym, or have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.

    In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities in the UK and across Europe as well as a competitive rewards package. We also have some great clubs, a free breakfast and as many smoothies as you can shake a stick at. Take a look at our reward page for more details.

    If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love to hear from you.

    You'll need to get your skates on though, as applications close soon.