Senior Category Manager

Noble Foods Ltd; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work pattern

Staines-upon-Thames office presence

Job summary

Noble Foods Ltd is recruiting a Senior Category Manager to shape category growth across major retail customers and brands. This hybrid role requires strategic thinking and hands-on execution, collaborating with Sales, Marketing and Brand teams to turn insights into actionable plans.

You will build trusted relationships with key retail contacts, influence range reviews and promotional planning, and lead data-driven storytelling to drive category improvements.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with key retail contacts and become category partner of choice
• Influence range reviews, space, distribution, display and promotions across retailers
• Champion the Category Vision internally and with customers
• Use Circana, Kantar, dunnhumby, Retail Link 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, testing and learning
• Raise Category Management capability across the wider business

Skills

Category Management

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Thinking

Communication Skills

Presentation Skills

Influencing

Tools

Circana

Kantar

dunnhumby

Retail Link

Job description

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 abilityA 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.

If you're ready to take your Category career to the next level, we'd love to hear from you.