Marketing - Category Manager

Finsbury Food Group; Hamilton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Finsbury Food Group seeks a Marketing - Category Manager to shape category strategies and drive growth through insights and collaboration with key retail partners. The role requires a proactive professional with strong FMCG experience, commercial acumen, and analytical skills to make impactful decisions.

Benefits

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Retail discounts accessible via Benefits Hub

Company shop with discounted products

Refer a Friend Scheme

Employee Recognition Awards

Extensive Learning & Development opportunities

Qualifications

• 2+ years in FMCG Category Management or Customer Marketing.
• Strong experience with category tools and shopper insight.
• P&L understanding and sound data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver an insight-driven Category Strategy.
• Own relationships with key grocery retail accounts.
• Create compelling selling stories in collaboration with teams.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Analytical mindset

Effective communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree qualified

Tools

EPOS

Nielsen/Kantar

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Location: Close to either our site in Hamilton, Scotland or our site in Manchester

Shift: Monday to Friday

Salary: Competitive + Benefits & Car Allowance

We have an exciting opportunity for a C ategory Manager to work within our Group Commercial team here at Finsbury Food Group.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

Be the voice of the shopper. Shape the future of our categories. Drive growth through insight.

Are you a commercially savvy Category Manager ready to make a real impact? At Finsbury Food Group, we’re looking for an experienced and proactive individual to lead one of our key category strategies — from development to implementation, with a sharp focus on shopper and consumer trends, profitable growth, and collaboration across key customers.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the development, socialisation, and delivery of a dynamic, insight-driven Category Strategy.
• Own and manage Finsbury’s category relationships with key grocery retail accounts to support profitable growth.
• Partner with our Brand Team to bring category, market, and consumer insight to life – driving innovation and growth across our brand and licensed product portfolio.
• Create compelling selling stories in collaboration with Sales, Marketing and NPD teams.
• Represent the voice of the shopper and consumer, using data and insights to guide strategic decisions.
• Deliver engaging, insight-led category presentations to customers and internal stakeholders alike.

Essential What you’ll bring:

• 2+ years in a customer-facing FMCG Category Management or Customer Marketing role (ideally with major UK retailers).
• Strong experience with category tools (EPOS, Nielsen/Kantar, shopper insight, merchandising, and space planning).
• Commercial acumen and the ability to flex plans to meet both internal and customer targets.
• Confidence in delivering data-driven recommendations to cross-functional teams and customers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail.
• P&L understanding and sound Microsoft Office (PowerPoint & Excel) skills.
• Degree qualified and a full, clean driving license.
• Bakery category experience.
• Familiarity with retailer loyalty card data platforms.

Who You’ll Work With

You’ll collaborate closely with our Category Team, Brand Managers, Business Managers, Account Execs, and Development Account Managers – working together to bring our product portfolio to life in the most compelling way possible.

What's in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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