Category Executive – Food in Slough

Category Executive

Location: Hybrid – minimum 2 days in the office
Salary: Up to £30,000

What You’ll Be Doing

• Support category reviews and strategy, using data and insight to identify growth opportunities.




• Analyse category and product performance, competitors and customer needs.




• Use Excel (including Pivot Tables) and Power BI to manipulate, analyse and present data.




• Help optimise product ranges across different customer channels and sectors.




• Manage the Own Brand NPD and range-gap Bidflow process alongside Buying, QA and technical teams.




• Identify opportunities across Own Brand, Branded and Exclusive Brands.




• Work with customers and suppliers to understand market trends and product opportunities.




• Create and coordinate category collateral, including digital and printed content.




• Support category events, supplier engagement and industry/trade shows.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Analytical and commercially curious, with a genuine desire to understand what drives category performance.




• Confident working with data, Excel and ideally Power BI.




• Comfortable engaging with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders.




• Highly organised, proactive and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines.




• A strong communicator who can influence and collaborate across teams.




• Passionate about food, products and consumer/customer trends.




• Previous foodservice, retail, FMCG or supplier-side experience would be highly beneficial.

For the right person, there is a clear potential pathway towards a Category Manager role in the future.