Category Manager

Edgewell Personal Care; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consumer goods business in Greater London is seeking a Category Manager to lead the management cycle from insights to execution. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in FMCG category insight, turning data into actionable strategies. Competitive salary with benefits including hybrid working, employee assistance, and generous leave entitlements are offered. If you are passionate about retail engagement and eager to drive change, we want to hear from you.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Car allowance

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Discounted products

25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in FMCG category or shopper insight.
• Strong ability to turn data into actionable insights.
• Confident in retail engagement and business discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead category management for brands: insights through execution.
• Translate data into recommendations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and partners.

Skills

FMCG category or shopper insight

Proactively identifies opportunities within data

Commercial awareness

Category tools familiarity

Strong presentation skills

Tools

Nielsen

Circana

Job description

Edgewell is not just a company, but a vibrant global community of6,800 visionaries, doers, and makers. Our family of over25 personal care brands serves people in more than50 countries. We are dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work. Our pledge goes beyond our products, with our fundamental value ofPeople First guiding us to foster a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment where every team member can flourish and celebrate our shared achievements.

Category Manager 5902
London, UK
Hybrid Working

Attractive salary & benefits

Now, Let's Get Down to Business

You’re ambitious, but you want a career with purpose—we love that. You’re up for a challenge and ready to write the next chapter of your career story with a great group of encouraging colleagues. You want to make your mark and let your personality shine.

We are looking for an experienced Professional to join Edgewell Personal Care – a global consumer goods business with a portfolio of over 25 brands (Wilkinson Sword, Schick, Hawaiian Tropic, Carefree, Bulldog Skincare for Men, Jack Black and recently acquired Cremo Grooming… just to name a few!).

Here’s a sample of what you’ll get up to:

• Lead the full category management cycle for your brands: insights, strategy, range, space, execution, and review
• Translate data from Nielsen, Dunnhumby, Kantar, and Circana into clear, compelling recommendations
• Build and manage planograms and space optimisation projects
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and external partners
• Manage budgets, suppliers, and timelines for data-related projects

Are You Ready to Show Us What You’ve Got?

While your experience is of course important, we’re all about making useful things joyful, so we love when our prospective candidates are passionate about this too.

Here’s what we are looking for:

• Has 3+ years’ experience in FMCG category or shopper insight
• Proactively identifies opportunities within data and turns it into easily digestible insights
• Brings a confident, commercially aware approach to retail engagement
• Can lead conversations with UK retailers and shape joint business thinking
• Looks for opportunities, efficiencies and willing to drive chang
• Familiar with category tools (e.g. Nielsen, Circana etc)
• Comfortable prioritising and making decision independently
• Relentless focus on execution
• Strong presenter, with the ability to turn data and recommendation into easily digestible presentations & commercial stories

What we offer

Competitive salary, car allowance, hybrid working possible, employee assistance programme, life assurance, discounted Edgewell branded products, core working hours, 25 days annual leave, free beverage & snacks, sports & social club membership, casual smart dress code and a great boss!

Now take the nest step

If you’re looking forward to progressing your career with us, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you. Please email an up-to-date CV in English along with your salary expectations. Alternatively, feel free to pass onto your teammates who may be interested. For information about this great company, visit www.edgewell.com.

Edgewell is an equal opportunity employer. We do all we can to create a collaborative and diverse global team, where good ideas can thrive, and our colleagues can learn and lead. We prohibit discrimination based on age, color, disability, marital or parental status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We listen deeply and speak directly to create an environment that’s open to difference. We aim to bring joy to not only the products we create and the people we serve, but our colleagues across the globe too.