Category Development Manager - JS; FTC

Category Development Manager - JS (FTC)

City:
Slough

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-store and online. Within Sales, we're focused on achieving out performance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success.

We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

You will work on the front line of strategic execution and at the centre of product delivery within a FTSE
10 Company and one of the top 3 TV advertisers in the UK – with results that consistently outperform our competitors.

Our brands are Number 1 or Number 2 brands in all their primary markets and we work with key retail players like Tesco, Boots, Asda and Sainsbury (amongst many others!). You will be able to say that you work for the most successful market innovator in the sector – with 30% of sales over three years coming from new products – and a company recognised for the strength of its commercial capabilities, offering numerous career opportunities.

This is a fixed-term contract until April 2027.

You will be responsible for responsible influencing and driving our key retailer relationships to advance the in-store execution of the category. The role will involve internal cross functional working with the National Account and the trade marketing teams and ensuring clear strategic building blocks and tactics are being driven with the appropriate sense of urgency externally to result in store excellence and retailer performance.

Reporting into Senior Category Development Manager.

Key Responsibilities/ Accountabilities

• Develop and deliver effective 4P execution based on local Success Models and an understanding of customers, categories and consumers to maximise category performance.
• Liaise with Trade Marketing to ensure that NPD plans and wider categories are aligned and best practices are shared.
• Customise strategies and plans to align with and support the retailers strategy.
• Own and lead category storytelling, ensuring insight-led, retailer‑ready narratives that land clearly with buying and merchandising teams.
• Effectively negotiate mutually beneficial solutions with various stakeholders and influence key decision-makers to improve in-store presence and execution of the category.
• Implement own initiatives from concept to in-store execution.
• Embed shopper-centric thinking into all recommendations, using missions, occasions and behaviours to shape plans.
• Lead space and layout optimisation across shelves to maximise availability and conversion.
• Drive the range review process.
• Understand and consider the impact of own decisions and independent action within other Reckitt units and wider business.

• Strong commercial acumen with a clear understanding of the Customer Management Process. Able to translate category strategy into retailer‑relevant execution and financial impact, including sales, margin, ranging, space productivity and ROI, with a solid understanding of retailer P&L, executional capabilities and strategic priorities.
• Highly competent analysing large volumes of complex data across multiple sources, applying strong analytical rigour to generate clear, actionable insight. Able to identify true shopper behaviour drivers rather than surface‑level trends and consistently link insight to commercially meaningful recommendations and plans.
• Confident communicator, able to operate and influence…