Category Manager - Male Grooming & Beauty

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS); Farnborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health technology company is seeking a Category Manager for Male Grooming & Beauty in Farnborough, UK. This role involves creating insightful category initiatives, managing projects across functions, and building relationships with retailers. The candidate should have at least three years of category management experience and strong analytical skills. The position requires in-office collaboration for at least 3 days a week to ensure seamless execution of category plans.

Qualifications

• Strong internal and external communication and influencing skills are essential.
• Ability to manage cross-functional projects effectively.
• Familiarity with GFK, Nielsen, and consumer data tools is important.

Responsibilities

• Create compelling trade stories to drive category growth.
• Monitor category trends for actionable insights.
• Manage range reviews from brief creation to reporting outcomes.
• Build relationships with retailers and influence partners.
• Partner with internal teams to execute category plans.

Skills

Strong communication and influencing skills

Project management across multiple functions

Proven analytical skills with GFK and Nielsen

Turning data into meaningful insights

Compelling storytelling

Category management experience (3+ years)

Job description

Job Title Category Manager Male Grooming & Beauty

Job Description

Category Manager - Male Grooming & Beauty UK

Shape the Future of Male Grooming & Beauty with a Global Leader! At Philips, we're redefining personal care and empowering people everywhere to look and feel their best. Join us as a Category Manager, responsible for Male Grooming & Beauty taking control of a high-impact category. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a fast-growing category by ensuring the triple win is delivered for your category.

You are responsible for:

• Creating compelling, insight-led selling trade stories using data from multiple sources to develop category initiatives that deliver category growth and secure retailer buy-in.
• Monitor and evaluate category, shopper, and competitor trends to develop actionable insights and recommendations across your categories to your retailers in combination with the Insight & Analytics teams.
• Range reviews ownership from creating the brief, managing the process, reporting on outcome, and follow up to ensure objectives met and recommendations implemented.
• Building strong, collaborative relationships with retailers. Influencing partners via impartial category expertise to influence change.
• Partner closely with sales, marketing and other internal teams to ensure seamless execution of category plans.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Strong communication and influencing skills, both internal and external.
• Ability to manage projects across multiple functions both internally and externally.
• Proven analytical skills-fluent with GFK, Nielsen, and consumer data tools.
• Ability to turn online and offline data into meaningful insights that drive action.
• Concise and compelling storytelling.
• Category management experience of at least three years.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.

If you're interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.