Category Manager | Personal care brand

📍 Central London office | Hybrid Working with the expectation to be in the office 3 days per week
🔺 £55,000 - £65,000 base

We're partnering with an international consumer brand on the appointment of a Category Manager to join their commercial team.

Acting as the category and insights expert across multiple UK channels, you'll play a pivotal role in helping the organisation better understand performance and growth opportunities through a category lens, further strengthening relationships with key retail partners.

Reporting into the Sales and Category Director, and working cross-functionally with D2C and Brand teams, you'll turn complex data into actionable recommendations that influence strategy, support customer conversations and drive business growth.

What you'll be doing

• Lead category analysis and performance reporting across a variety of sales channels, identifying trends, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Develop category-led recommendations that support growth strategies, customer partnerships and long-term business planning.
• Act as a trusted advisor to both internal stakeholders and external partners, using insight to influence decision-making and strengthen commercial outcomes.
• Support key customer discussions with compelling, data-driven storytelling and category expertise.
• Build impactful presentations, range recommendations and category reviews that help shape retailer strategy.
• Manage and maximise value from multiple data sources, ensuring insight is accurate, relevant and commercially focused.
• Partner closely with sales, marketing and innovation teams to ensure category thinking is embedded across the organisation.
• Monitor competitor performance and market developments, translating findings into clear business recommendations.
• Help establish and evolve best-in-class category capabilities within the international business.