Category Manager - Ice Cream

Job Title: Category Manager

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Location: Kingston-upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

Closing date: 9 Jun 2025

Job Purpose

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is the ice cream category leader, responsible for delivering best-in-class category leadership across the UK market, driving insight-led growth, and building trust with customers. The candidate will build and maintain credible, long-term relationships internally and externally, acting as the voice of the customer, consumer, and shopper to deliver actionable insights that create category value.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with key customer contacts, delivering category growth recommendations.
• Translate insights into actions through analysis and evaluation of category plans, including seasonal range reviews.
• Utilize data sources like Nielsen, Kantar, and retailer loyalty data to generate recommendations.
• Create tailored category strategies based on consumer and shopper insights.
• Use space planning tools to analyze and recommend merchandising strategies.
• Support and develop the category management team.
• Represent the voice of the customer, shopper, and consumer within the organization.

About You

• Deep industry knowledge, including trade classes, customer groups, and industry trends.
• Strong customer relationship and stakeholder management skills.
• Effective team player.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Analytical skills to evaluate data and generate actionable insights.
• Strong project management and planning skills.
• Line management experience.
• Innovative and solution-oriented mindset with strategic thinking.
• Self-motivated.

Additional Information

Unilever is a leading global supplier of Food, Home, and Personal Care products with over 400 brands. We are committed to sustainability, diversity, and inclusion, and offer flexible working policies, development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

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