Eurilait Ltd
Category & Insights Manager
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Category & Insights Manager – Eurilait
Join the Eurilait team and turn data into insight that drives value-adding commercial decisions.
About Eurilait
Eurilait is one of the UK’s leading speciality cheese suppliers, working with retailers, foodservice businesses, wholesalers, and food manufacturers. As part of a European dairy group, we combine international expertise with a strong focus on quality, innovation, and category growth.
About the Role
We are looking for a Category & Insights Manager to lead and develop our insights capability. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of the category and insights function, helping the business make better commercial decisions through data, analysis, and consumer understanding.
As the Category & Insights Manager, you will be the go-to expert for category performance, consumer behaviour, and market trends across Eurilait. This role combines traditional category analysis with broader consumer and market insight, helping the business stay ahead of emerging trends and customer needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Eurilait’s category and consumer insight capability, acting as the business expert in category performance and shopper behaviour
- Analyse sales, market, and panel data (e.g., Nielsen, Kantar, Lumina) to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
- Translate data into clear commercial insights and recommendations for internal teams and customer partners
- Deliver regular reporting and insight presentations that influence decision-making across the business
- Support the sales and marketing teams with:
- Category strategy
- Range reviews
- Customer category conversations
- Identify emerging consumer trends through:
- Social platforms
- Macro trend data
- Industry insight
- Manage relationships with external data and insight providers, ensuring data quality and value from subscriptions
- Represent Eurilait at industry insight events and conferences to bring external thinking back into the business
- Continuously improve how insight is shared across the organisation, making data accessible and meaningful to different audiences
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Skills and Experience
- Proven experience in category management, insights, or data analysis, ideally within FMCG or food
- Experience working with category and panel data platforms such as Nielsen, Kantar, or similar
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn complex data into clear insights and recommendations
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to influence different stakeholders
- Commercial awareness and an interest in consumer behaviour and market trends
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Proactive and curious mindset, with a desire to continuously improve how insight supports the business
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What We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Hybrid working with flexibility around office and home working
- The opportunity to shape and lead the category and insights function within a growing business
- Exposure to major retailers and a wide range of commercial projects
- A collaborative and supportive working environment
- The chance to work with added-value products in a dynamic and evolving food business
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