Category Manager

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Inghams Group Limited Full time

**Posted**:
22/04/2025

**Closing Date**:
22/05/2025

**Job Type**:
Permanent - Full Time

**Location**:
NSW - North Ryde

**Job Category**:
Sales

We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years. A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together. Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.

Job Description

**Your opportunity to join us at North Ryde as a Category Manager**

As part of our Retail Team, this role is responsible for driving category thought leadership to unlock growth for Inghams and our customers. We are looking for a category champion that understands shoppers, has a customer centric mindset, and is able to support and influence internal stakeholders whilst partnering closely with our customers.

Based in our Head Office you will experience an inclusive, friendly culture where collaboration, knowledge-sharing and diversity is supported. Inghams is a more complex business than you may imagine, offering many challenges and opportunities to grow your career across a variety of fields. This role will require some travel to customer and supplier sites, so a driving license will be required.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Ensure category growth and objectivity are at the heart of all interactions with the customer
- Be the go-to expert for retailers to grow the category, develop strong relationships with the customer
- Develop and execute category strategy aligned with business objectives, market trends and customer opportunities to drive category performance
- Develop and present retailer category reviews and workshops supported by insights to deliver to the category strategy and drive growth for our retail partners
- Leverage consumer and category insights to guide product innovation and promotional strategies
- Be a key partner/ internal champion to internal stakeholders by providing category and shopper insights that support strategic decision making, solve consumer and shopper problems and leverage category opportunities
- Be the Category champion throughout Joint Business Planning with key retailers, helping to shape the key initiatives that will drive category growth

**Key requirements**:

- 5 years' experience in FMCG Category, Consumer or Shopper Management
- Ability to combine strong strategic thinking and analytical ability, whilst thriving on using new knowledge and data to create meaningful and useful intelligence
- Intimate understanding of retail partners and their KPIs
- Ability to influence and build relationships with cross-functional teams to build, agree and execute category growth strategy
- Strong problem-solving ability & commercial nous - capable of understanding the impact of decision making on the business
- Curiosity to question and the courage to answer
- Passion, positivity and flexibility
- Working knowledge of Retailer scan data (Circana or Nielsen), Homescan/ Panel or Quantium
- Degree in Marketing or Business-related discipline

We're looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us; people who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering deliciously good food that's Always Good

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