Category Manager, Retail

Position Title:

Category Manager, Retail

Position Type:  Regular - Full-Time

Requisition :  43176

Category Manager - Retail

Scarborough

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role.

At McCain, our people are what make us special. We're ambitious, curious, and always looking for ways to help each other succeed. We put our customers at the heart of everything we do, making it easy to do business with McCain while creating great experiences along the way.

We're looking for a  Category Manager  to become a trusted expert across our key categories and the frozen food market. In this high-impact role, you'll turn consumer, market, and customer insights into strategies that drive growth and deliver results. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams and build influential relationships with some of the UK's biggest retailers, particularly the Major Multiples.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who loves combining data-driven thinking with commercial strategy and thrives on collaboration. If you're passionate about unlocking opportunities, influencing key stakeholders, and bringing energy and personality to everything you do, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing.
Turn insights into action  - Analyse consumer, shopper and market data to uncover trends, identify opportunities, and drive category growth.
Partner for success  - Work closely with our Sales teams to maximise distribution, unlock new opportunities, and deliver against ambitious commercial objectives.
Influence key customers  - Build strong relationships with leading retail partners, delivering compelling category reviews, range recommendations, and NPD proposals that drive results.
Drive digital growth  - Collaborate with Ecommerce and Commercial teams to create and execute winning online category strategies.
Bring shopper plans to life  - Develop impactful shopper activation programmes that align with McCain's Category Vision and deliver value for customers and consumers alike.
Own your category  - Act as the go-to category expert for your product area, shaping insight-led strategies, supporting successful product launches, and ensuring outstanding execution in market.
What you'll need to be successful.
2-3 years' experience in category management, insight, commercial support within FMCG/CPG, ideally with exposure to Retail environments.
A strong track record of turning consumer and market insight into action, with the ability to develop clear, commercially relevant recommendations.
Analytical capability, with hands-on experience using key data sources and tools, including:
o Retail:
Kantar, Circana (formerly IRI/Nielsen), dunnhumby

o Additional tools:
PowerBI, SAP BI, Excel and CRM platforms (e.g. Salesforce)  Proven ability to query, interpret and synthesise complex data, translating insight into practical business and customer outcomes.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to build effective relationships across internal teams and with external partners.
Benefits.

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods, you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. Alongside your salary, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:  Private healthcare [single]
Car Allowance
Annual bonus scheme based on both company and individual performance with the ability to salary sacrifice into your pension
An excellent salary sacrifice pension scheme where we'll contribute double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your salary
25 days' annual leave from day one plus bank holidays (increasing with service), giving you plenty of time to recharge with the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year
Life insurance cover providing peace of mind for you and your family
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, because the moments that matter outside of work matter to us too
Medicash health cash plan, helping you claim money back on everyday healthcare costs, with access to a virtual GP and wellbeing support
TELUS Health employee and family assistance…