Category Manager, Retail in Filey, Yorkshire

About McCain. At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, 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.

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. We're looking for a Category Manager to become a trusted partner for our core categories and the frozen food market. You'll play a pivotal role in turning consumer, market, and customer insights into real actions that unlock growth, while building strong relationships with both internal teams and external retail partners, particularly the major four multiples! This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who thrives on data, strategy, and collaboration - and who can bring passion and personality to every conversation.

Accountabilities:

• Analyse market and consumer data to spot trends, generate insights and translate them into growth opportunities.
• Work closely with the sales team to drive distribution and deliver against commercial plans.
• Build trusted relationships with customers, delivering impactful category reviews, range reviews and NPD sell-ins.
• Partner with ecommerce and commercial teams to develop and deliver online growth plans.
• Create and execute shopper activation plans aligned with McCain's Category Vision.
• Act as the category partner for a defined product area, ensuring insight-driven strategy, successful NPD launches and effective activation.

What we're looking for:

• Experience analysing and interpreting data, and turning it into actionable recommendations.
• A background in Category Management within FMCG ideally.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• A clear understanding of route-to-market processes and shopper behaviour.
• The ability to manage projects, juggle priorities, and deliver results with pace.
• A curious, collaborative and resilient mindset, with a genuine customer focus.
• Experience with data providers (such as Circana and Kantar, Dunnhumby, Retail Link) and shopper marketing activity would be an advantage.

The benefits of working for McCain:

• An achievable yearly bonus based on personal performance.
• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay.
• Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Optional health cash plan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe.
• Great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.