Senior Grocery Category Manager: Data-Driven Growth

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

Benefits offered by this job

Free life insurance

Perkbox discounts

Wellness programme

Annual Health Check

Discounted eggs & chicken

Gym membership discounts

Eye test

Job summary

Noble Foods Limited is seeking a Senior Category Manager for Grocery to drive category growth with UK retailers and brands. Hybrid role: three days a week in Staines-upon-Thames, combining strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

You will build trusted relationships, influence range reviews, space, promotional planning, and use data sources to uncover opportunities and tell compelling stories that translate into commercial wins for customers and our brands.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' Category Management experience
• FMCG experience
• Strong customer-facing and relationship-building skills
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation ability
• Understanding of the UK grocery market
• Confident to influence, challenge and drive positive change
• Creative, commercially-minded approach to solving problems

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Customer-facing

Relationship-building

Analytical

Communication

Presentation skills

Commercial mindset

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business / FMCG

Tools

Circana

Kantar

dunnhumby

Retail Link

Job description

Noble Foods Limited is seeking a Senior Category Manager for Grocery to drive category growth with UK retailers and brands. Hybrid role: three days a week in Staines-upon-Thames, combining strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

You will build trusted relationships, influence range reviews, space, promotional planning, and use data sources to uncover opportunities and tell compelling stories that translate into commercial wins for customers and our brands.