Thriving Brands
Senior Category Manager | Home Based | UK | Personal Care
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Are you a category expert who can turn data into compelling retailer stories?
Thriving Brands is a fast-growing, acquisitive personal care business with their Head Office in the US. With ambitious plans for growth across the UK market, we are looking for a commercially minded experienced Category Manager to play a key role in shaping customer strategy and driving category growth.
Reporting directly to the UK Country Manager, this is a highly visible role with significant autonomy and influence across the business.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading and delivering actionable UK category and shopper analysis using Circana, Kantar and AI tools
- Creating powerful retailer-specific range reviews and category growth plans
- Turning complex data into clear insights and strategies for the UK market across a number of brands
- Identifying opportunities across assortment, distribution, pricing and promotion
- Influencing key UK grocery and High St retailers, with insight-led stories and recommendations
- Building retailer relationships and solving problems creatively to drive growth
- Acting as the UK category expert for both local and US leadership teams
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What we're looking for:
- Proven experience in Category Management, (min 5yrs) within Personal care or wider FMCG sector.
- Experience with Tesco an advantage
- Advanced data analysis, commercial storytelling, presentation and influencing skills
- A track record of delivering impactful presentations and recommendations to retailers and stakeholders
- A strong commercial mindset with the ability to translate insight into measurable business outcomes
- A self-starter who thrives with autonomy and can operate effectively in a home-based role
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What You’ll Get:
- Competitive package + performance bonus
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Real ownership and leadership opportunity in a flat organization
- Remote work with flexibility (travel required for collaboration and customer meetings)
- The chance to help scale a growing, acquisition-driven personal care business
Why join?
This is an opportunity to join a business that is genuinely on the move. You'll have the freedom to make an impact, direct access to senior decision-makers, and the chance to shape category strategy during an exciting period of growth and acquisition.
If you're equally comfortable analysing the numbers and presenting a compelling story to retailers, and internal stakeholders we'd love to hear from you.
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