Senior Category Manager — Food & Dairy Growth & Innovation

Quorum Search Partners; Monaghan; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Quorum Search Partners is partnering with a leading international food and dairy organisation to recruit experienced Category Managers for its growing commercial and innovation function.

These roles carry responsibility for the strategic direction, commercial performance and long-term development of key product categories across both consumer and food ingredient markets, working closely with Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Finance and Supply Chain.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in food, FMCG, dairy, or ingredients sectors.
• Strong commercial acumen with track record of category strategy.
• Strong analytical and market insight capabilities.
• Experience working cross-functionally and driving growth through innovation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement category strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Own category performance, profitability and KPIs.
• Identify market opportunities, customer needs and trends.
• Build growth plans, roadmaps and business cases.
• Support pricing, margins and revenue optimisation.
• Collaborate with R&D and Innovation to commercialise new products.
• Review and optimise portfolio performance.
• Gather customer, market and consumer insights to inform strategy.
• Influence senior stakeholders across functions to align priorities.

Skills

Category Management

Strategic Marketing

Brand Management

Innovation

Commercial Strategy

Market Insight

Education

Bachelor's or equivalent in Business / Marketing / Food Science

Job description

Quorum Search Partners is partnering with a leading international food and dairy organisation to recruit experienced Category Managers for its growing commercial and innovation function.

These roles carry responsibility for the strategic direction, commercial performance and long-term development of key product categories across both consumer and food ingredient markets, working closely with Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Finance and Supply Chain.