Senior Category Manager

Noble Foods Ltd; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive basic

Service Awards

Enhanced paternity and maternity

Free life insurance

Enhanced Sick Pay Scheme

Perkbox discounts

Discounted eggs and chicken

Annual celebration day after 1 year

Job summary

Noble Foods Ltd is seeking a Senior Category Manager to drive growth across our grocery customers and brands. Based in the UK, the role is hybrid with 3 days on-site in Staines-upon-Thames, offering the chance to influence retailers and shape category strategy.

You’ll turn data and shopper insight into compelling commercial recommendations, partner with Sales, Marketing and Brand teams, and lead shopper marketing activity while building strong relationships with key retailers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Category Management experience.
• Experience in FMCG sector.
• Strong customer-facing and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation ability.
• Good understanding of the UK grocery market.
• Ability to influence, challenge and drive positive change.
• Creative, commercially-minded approach to solving problems.
• Ability to move between strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with key retail contacts and become a category partner of choice.
• Influence range reviews, space, distribution, display and promotional planning across major retailers.
• Champion the Category Vision internally and with customers.
• Use data sources to uncover opportunities and tell compelling stories.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing and Brand teams to translate insight into category and brand growth.
• Develop customer-specific category and trade stories that influence decisions.
• Lead shopper marketing activity and manage customer budgets, testing and improving.
• Raise Category Management capability across the business.

Skills

Category Management

FMCG experience

Customer relationships

Analytical & presentation

Job description

Senior Category Manager - Grocery

Hybrid: 3 days a week in Staines-upon-Thames

Ready to shape the category agenda with some of the UK’s biggest retailers?

We’re looking for a Senior Category Manager to play a key role in driving category growth across our retail customers and brands.

This is a high-impact role for an ambitious Category professional who can turn data and shopper insight into compelling commercial recommendations — influencing customers, challenging thinking and helping shape the future of the category.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build trusted relationships with key retail contacts and become a genuine category partner of choice
• Influence range reviews, space, distribution, display and promotional planning across major retailers
• Champion the Category Vision internally and with customers
• Use Circana, Kantar, dunnhumby, Retail Link and other data sources to uncover opportunities and tell compelling stories
• Partner with Sales, Marketing and Brand teams to translate insight into category and brand growth
• Develop customer‑specific category and trade stories that influence commercial decisions
• Lead shopper marketing activity and manage customer budgets, continually testing, learning and improving
• Help raise Category Management capability across the wider business

What We’re Looking For

• You’ll be a graduate‑calibre FMCG professional with:
• 5+ years’ Category Management experience
• FMCG experience
• Strong customer‑facing and relationship‑building skills
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation ability
• A strong understanding of the UK grocery market
• The confidence to influence, challenge and drive positive change
• A creative, commercially‑minded approach to solving problems

Most importantly, you’ll be someone who can move comfortably between strategy and execution — turning insight into action and making an impact with both customers and internal stakeholders.

Noble Foods is a family‑owned company which began in 1920 and includes successful milling, poultry, agriculture, and consumer foods businesses. Within this, Noble Foods owns several successful brands, including the UK’s biggest free‑range egg brand the Happy Egg co., Big & Fresh and Purely Organic.

In a recent survey by Best Companies we were rated as one of the Top 10 companies to work for in the Food and Drink industry.

What can we offer you?

• Competitive basic
• Service Awards
• Enhanced paternity and maternity
• Free life insurance
• Enhanced Sick Pay Scheme
• Access to Perkbox with a variety of discounts including a monthly freebie from Greggs or Café Nero
• Discounted eggs and chicken
• A Celebration day after 1 years service enjoy an extra day off to celebrate a life event, such as your birthday
• Access to DigiCare + - Annual Health Check, Digital GP Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Health Opinion and Mental Health Consultations.
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Free Eye Test every two years
• Discounted mobile phone contracts
• Share in our success with the People Partnership - after 6 months service you will be eligible for a yearly bonus
• Additional Allowances for First Aiders and Mental Health First Aiders
• Wellness programme
• Employee Charity Matching Scheme

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.