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Category Manager, Convenience & Impulse - No1 Snacking Brand
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Looking for a category role where your insight can genuinely influence commercial decisions and shape customer growth?
We're partnering with one of the UK's most recognisable food businesses, part of a major European food group with a strong portfolio of market-leading brands and a significant presence across grocery, convenience, travel and foodservice channels.
This is an opportunity to join a commercially ambitious business where category management sits at the heart of customer strategy - using insight, data and shopper understanding to influence how products are ranged, merchandised and activated across some of the UK's most dynamic channels.
You'll be joining a collaborative, high-energy culture that genuinely invests in its people, with strong opportunities to develop your career within a business of significant scale.
The Opportunity
As Category Manager, you'll take ownership of category relationships across a portfolio of key convenience & impulse customers.
You'll act as a trusted category advisor, partnering with customers and internal stakeholders to translate data and insight into clear commercial recommendations that drive growth.
Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Category, Innovation and wider commercial teams, you'll shape category strategies, influence customer decisions and help unlock opportunities across some of the fastest-growing channels in FMCG.
This is far more than a reporting role. It's an opportunity to turn insight into action, influence customer strategy and become a key voice for the convenience channel within the business.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Building strong category relationships across a portfolio of convenience & impulse customers
- Acting as a trusted advisor, influencing customer decisions around range, space, merchandising and activation
- Developing category growth strategies supported by shopper, market and customer insight
- Using data sources including Nielsen, Circana and other market platforms to identify opportunities and create compelling recommendations
- Translating complex data into clear commercial stories for customers and internal stakeholders
- Creating customer presentations, category guides and insight-led selling materials
- Owning the strategic category agenda for travel and convenience channels
- Monitoring market trends, competitor activity and shopper behaviour to identify future opportunities
- Supporting cross-functional projects and acting as the voice of the impulse channel internally
About You
We're looking for a commercially minded FMCG Category Manager who enjoys using insight to influence decisions and deliver growth, who can demonstrate:
- Experience working with category data platforms such as Nielsen and/or Circana
- Strong analytical capability with the ability to interpret complex data and turn it into actionable recommendations
- Strong commercial understanding and the ability to link insight to business outcomes
- Excellent presentation and influencing skills, with the confidence to work with customers and internal stakeholders
- A proactive, self-starting approach with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
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Experience within convenience & impulse would be helpful, as would familiarity with Lumina data, but these are not essential.
Why Join?
This is a business with genuine scale, a strong portfolio of products and ambitious plans for continued growth.
You'll have the opportunity to work across exciting and evolving channels, influence major customer relationships and play a key role in shaping category strategy.
You'll be joining a business that values commercial thinking, collaboration and innovation, with the opportunity to develop your career within a leading FMCG organisation.
Most importantly, you'll be given the opportunity to make a real impact - your insight and recommendations will directly influence customer decisions and business growth.
Location
Berkshire (2 - 3 days/week)
Package
- £52,000 salary
- £5,500 car allowance
- Annual bonus
- Comprehensive benefits package
Interested?
If you're looking for a category role where you can combine insight, strategy and customer influence within a leading FMCG business, we'd love to hear from you.
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