Senior Category Manager

Senior Category Manager

Job Description

Become part of the team powering household names like Andrex®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Viva®, and WypAll®.

At Arbex, everything you need is right here—innovation, growth, and the chance to leave a real mark.

Settling for just any role isn't you, and it isn't us either.

Being Unstoppable Together calls for a particular kind of person and teams who genuinely care about making a difference.

Here, you'll channel your professional expertise, talent, and drive into building and managing a portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you'll help shape the future of tissue and hygiene for billions of people worldwide.

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the centre.

As a member of the UK Category Leadership Team this role offers an exciting opportunity to develop and execute category initiatives aligned to the category vision within key retail partners. 

You will be responsible for engaging with our top retail partners, influencing them to adhere to our principles to deliver category growth.

You will be responsible for building relationships with key retailers and influencing them to implement category initiatives.  You will be required to work cross-functionally with sales and marketing to ensure alignment of recommendations to drive profitable growth for of the retailer and for Arbex,

 

Job responsibilities include:

To inspire key retailer partners to execute in line with Arbex strategies to deliver category growth for the retailer and Arbex.

You will utilise your exceptional understanding of key data sources and shopper insight to create compelling stories to positively influence your retailer’s range, merchanding and promotional strategies.

 


* Support the development of category strategies and influence retailers to implement recommendations tailored to their specific needs


* Develop and deliver effective external category selling stories, tailored by customer as required, to support new category growth initiatives with key customers


* Develop and agree joint category plan focused on key initiatives including merchandising and promotion recommendations.


* Monitor, evaluate & communicate changes in category, customer dynamics and competitor activities and recommend actions to address issues and opportunities affecting the category and/or Arbex brands


* Recommend actions to address category and/or Arbex issues through influencing retailer partners

To succeed in this role, you will need the following experience & qualifications:


* Strong customer focus, with ability to develop consumer-led joint strategies


* Excellent analytical skills with a talent to combine data sources and create the category led selling stories


* Comfortable in creating highly collaborative relationships, both internal and external,...