Senior Category Manager — Food & Dairy Growth & Innovation

Quorum Search Partners

Monaghan

On-site

EUR 70,000 - 105,000

Full time

5 days ago
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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.

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