Category Manager, Category Strategy & Own Label

Position Title:

Category Manager, Category Strategy & Own Label Position Type:
Regular - Full-Time

Requisition  Category Manager - Category Strategy & Own Label. About McCain. At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality-shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do.

We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain! Why join the McCain family. Your Life - we're here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.

Your Success - work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, drive, and success. Your Impact - we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business. About the role. In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.

The Category Manager - Category Strategy & Own Label is a pivotal executional role, bringing category growth strategies to life across Retail and Food service channels. This role plays a key part in translating strategic direction into practical, customer- and consumer-led initiatives that accelerate growth for McCain. Working in close partnership with the Senior Category Manager and environment specialists, you'll tailor category strategies and activation plans to the specific needs of each channel and customer environment.

You'll leverage robust data and insight to design, deliver and track initiatives that strengthen the commercial performance of McCain's Own Label portfolio. You'll also support the growth of McCain Group's Own Label business in the UK, collaborating closely with UK and European commercial teams to develop locally relevant, consumer- and operator-led propositions. These propositions will align to both category and customer strategies, helping to deliver McCain's growth ambitions across Retail and Food service.

As a key point of contact for assigned customers, you'll build best-in-class engagement, clearly articulate the value of McCain's category propositions, and deliver data-led recommendations that create shared value for both McCain and its customers. Leadership Principles. Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success.

While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles. We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success. We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together. We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain. Accountabilities. Insight Development & Category Foresight Proactively analyse, synthesise and communicate insights from a broad range of data sources, including market, shopper, loyalty, panel, customer and operator data.

Combine global trade flow, share and capacity data with local quantitative and qualitative insight to deliver robust competitor monitoring and performance reporting. Translate insight into clear foresight on…