Senior Category Manager: Deodorants and Men’s Toiletries

Unilever; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Category Manager for Deodorants and Men’s Toiletries in Kingston. This role focuses on driving category growth through strategic insights and effective customer relationships. You will lead a team, develop strategies, and ensure alignment with Unilever's broader category strategy. The position offers flexibility and promotes an inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Expert in category management and strategy creation.
• Strong data analysis and insight generation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the category management relationship with customers.
• Develop strategies and coach a team of Category Management Executives.
• Champion category initiatives across customers.

Skills

Strategy creation and implementation

Category Management

Building great customer relationships

Data analysis and insight generation

High level of presentation skills

High level of influencing skills

Job description

Job Title: Senior Category Manager: Deodorants and Men’s Toiletries

Location: Kingston (2 Days in the office)

Full time

JOB PURPOSE

The purpose of this role is to grow the categories that Unilever operates in to ensure their future. In this role you deliver best in class category and shopper insights to our retailers and our business, developing strategies, solutions and recommendations to grow our mutual businesses sustainably.

DELIVERABLES

Channel anchor: What is expected?

• Own the overarching category management relationship with the customer/channel and ensure we build maximum credibility e.g. consistent and well know person in customer/channel, act as quality control and gatekeeper of trust we build externally in our category expertise
• Be the expert in how we can win using category management in that customer/channel e.g. know key people to engage, right data to use, milestones and timings to hit, customer strategy on category management, channel trends and trajectory
• Act as point person for customer/channel director to build strategy with e.g. key support in building role of customer/channel and Unilever, reviewing innovation pipeline, wingman in T2Ts/strategy days
• Governing discipline and the planning of cat man agile resource and phasing for their channel/customer - bringing in the right anchor category experts and ensuring cat man team are upskilled to appropriate level in their channel/category
• Developing and coaching a team of 2 Category Management Executives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be the deep expert in the category, set the category growth drivers, vision and trends
• Strong connection CMI to facilitate understanding of category through data and insight
• Build the channel growth model for the category (what are the roles of each customer/category in the category)
• Support their category initiatives across customers
• Champion their category in the cat man team e.g. ensuring the other anchor roles have an appropriate level of understanding of their category to facilitate resource recommendations
• Ensure the CCBT, CD Director buddy and CCD fully understand the category drivers and feed into the Unilever category strategy
• Consult and challenge the Unilever Category Strategy and execution to ensure aligned to category/channel growth drivers

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Personal Mastery – Always brings their best self.
• Agility – Constantly curious and entrepreneurial.
• Business Acumen – Generates value for Customers and Unilever.
• Consumer Love – creates plans which deliver for our consumers.
• Passion for high performance – inspires others to greater heights.

KEY SKILLS

• Strategy creation and implementation
• Category Management
• Building great customer relationships
• Data analysis and insight generation
• High level of presentation skills
• High level of influencing skills

WHAT WE OFFER

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (unilever.com).