Retail Category Manager

**Position Title**:Retail Category Manager

**Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time

**Position Location**:Melbourne

**Requisition ID**: 33410

**About McCain**.**
At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to pizza, 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.

McCain is a place where you can grow from the ground up, so join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain.

**About the team**.**

We have an outstanding opportunity for an experienced & motivated Category Manager to join our Retail team, located in Melbourne.

Reporting into the Head of Category, this role will see you develop and drive elevated business growth conversations, fuelled by highly specialised category capabilities. You will lead the strategy & execution of category leadership initiatives with our customers and across the broader McCain 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.

**Lead category strategy for the relevant portfolios across ANZ**:

- Lead and maintain relevant Category vision and 3-year strategy across ANZ - utilising macro trends, occasions framework, consumer insights & shopper insights to formulate category growth drivers, quantify sources of growth & profitability mix recommendations.

**Internal Planning**:

- Lead the AOC planning process, by setting category strategy that ultimately drives/influences brand strategy, private label strategy, innovation, & sales strategy
- Conduct regular category performance reviews/deep dives to drive insights & recommendations into monthly IBP operating rhythm, portfolio management reviews & pipeline reviews

**Retailer Engagement & Planning**:

- Represent the consumer and shopper, utilising insights & trend analysis to drive elevated category conversations (insights into propositions into strategic selling) that lead the thinking and execution of our customers
- Build powerful & collaborative retailer relationships, leading the operational rhythm for regular retailer engagement to support alignment to category strategies, ranging, pricing and testing future opportunities

**Leadership Principles**.**
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. 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.

**About You**.**

**Qualifications**:

- 5+ years’ experience leading category management processes preferable within Retail, paired with experience in range, space, price, promotional & mix optimisation
- Ideally Degree qualified in a relevant field i.e. Business/Marketing

**Skills**:

- A highly developed understanding of the leading established retailers & emerging environments
- Highly skilled in influencing without authority & building collaborative partnerships across internal & external stakeholders
- Demonstrated success in growing the size of categories, improving profitability & unlocking three way wins with retailers
- Ability & proven experience in acting as a thought leader; strategic thinker to partner with stakeholders across a range of levels and organisations

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