Global Category Strategy Director

Glanbia has a unique portfolio of better nutrition brands and ingredients, addressing growing consumer demand in major health and nutrition categories. We play into the growing market trends of active lifestyles and, health and wellness.
Health and Nutrition comprises the premix solutions and flavor's platforms
. We are a leading provider of specialized solutions in premix and flavors to many of the world’s greatest brands.

We are hiring a Global Category Strategy Director who will be responsible for defining and executing global category strategies that enable Glanbia Health & Nutrition to achieve competitive advantage, supply continuity, cost leadership, innovation enablement, and risk mitigation across key spend categories. As the Category Strategy Director you will:

• Define and execute the global strategy for Active Lifestyle and Emerging Categories, including growth priorities, innovation roadmaps, and go-to-market approaches.
• Ensure alignment with broader H&N portfolio strategy and long-term business objectives.
• Directly manage two Global Senior Category Strategy Managers (Functional Beverages and VMS), setting clear priorities, coaching development, and ensuring strong execution.
• Foster a culture of strategic thinking, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead synthesis of global market, consumer, and competitive insights to identify high-value growth opportunities.
• Establish clear prioritization frameworks across Active Lifestyle and Emerging segments.
• Monitor category, customer, and portfolio performance; identify risks and opportunities.
• Drive actions to achieve revenue, margin, and pipeline targets across categories.
• Define and govern the category innovation pipeline and roadmap across managed categories.
• Ensure alignment between customer demand, technology capabilities, and portfolio strategy.
• Partner with sales and commercial teams to translate insights into actionable opportunities and customer engagements.
• Support targeted prospecting, solution selling, and expansion of strategic customer relationships.
• Represent Glanbia externally through industry engagements, customer interactions, and trade forums.
• Position the organization as a leader in Active Lifestyle and Emerging segments.
• Lead alignment across R&D, marketing, insights, procurement, and commercial teams to deliver on strategic priorities.
• Ensure execution discipline across innovation, commercialization, and customer programs.
• Partner closely with the Global Category Strategy Director (Early Life Nutrition & Clinical Nutrition – EMEA & ASPAC) and Category Strategy Manager (ASPAC) to ensure global consistency and regional relevance.
• Identify and assess new market opportunities (technologies, partnerships, adjacencies) within Emerging Categories.
• Ensure alignment with financial targets and forecasting accuracy.

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years of relevant experience in B2B food, ingredients, or nutrition industries
• Strong background in category strategy, portfolio management, strategic marketing, or product management
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing and developing high-performing teams
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to operate effectively in highly matrixed, global organizations
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

The Global Category Strategy team sits within the Health & Nutrition Category & Portfolio Strategy (CPS) organization, part of the broader Commercial structure.

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, and 401K.

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions:
Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5,800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and…