Category Manager in Leeds

Location: Kiveton

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we are one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we are proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food, both our own and from trusted partners, to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

What You'll Be Doing

• As a Category Manager, your role will be to become a trusted advisor within our organisation and for our customer base by following the category management process to harness customer and consumer insight, strategic recommendations, and action plans to improve category performance and deliver on joint business targets.
• Create, analyse and interpret category reports to generate actionable insight which will improve business and customer category performance.
• Utilise category insight from multiple data sources (internal company and retailer data, continuous data providers and broader market intelligence) to create strategies and plans which utilise the appropriate marketing mix to respond to the current category performance.
• Present category recommendations to category peers within the customer organisation to influence their decision-making to adopt the strategies and plans.
• Follow the retailers' cycles of the category marketing process to ensure that all plans have been correctly assessed, approved and implemented.
• Manage the ongoing category relationship with the customer to provide a single point of contact to ensure consistency of communication.
• Work with the commercial team to feed in category plans enabling joined up/aligned and meaningful customer plans to be created.
• Build extensive networks across merchandising, supply chain, marketing, store ops etc to speed decision-making/action implementation.
• Input into process (from insight) from identifying opportunities through to developing shopper-led selling stories.
• Develop a two to three-year vision and a roadmap of specific action for the categories.

What We're Looking For

• Understanding of the retail environment/marketplace.
• Understanding of the principles and tools of category management.
• Strong data manipulation and Excel skills, with a keen eye on attention to detail. Be able to identify where data has changed, and explain why.
• Ability to prepare and deliver effective and action-led presentations.
• Previous customer-facing role.
• Previous category management and strategy experience.
• Experience of retailer data systems.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

What You'll Get In Return

• Competitive salary and job related benefits.
• Holidays.
• Competitive matched pension contributions.
• Life insurance up to 4x salary.
• Company ShareSave scheme.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you'll be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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