Category Manager

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!
At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -

Benefits for Colleagues

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private health scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Profit related pay
• Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

The Opportunity
As a Category Manager you will be responsible for providing category expertise to create and deliver differentiated category plans realising growth for customers and Samworth Brothers. Demonstrating continuous best in class category management principles and working with cross functional teams to elevate the shopper experience and ensure Samworth Brothers Category are the team of choice.

Category Manager Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate the market, category, customer, shopper , consumer and key initiatives to create and maintain category reports and presentations with actionable insights
• Collaborate with cross functional internal and external teams, ensuring insights are at the heart of all decision making and initiatives including the innovation pipeline
• Delight and engage key customer contacts with compelling stories and activities to ensure Samworth Brothers are the category partner of choice
• Line manage and develop the Category Executive team who are responsible for capturing market and category intel, shopper behaviour and reporting.

The Ideal Candidate
We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience: -

• Experience in a Category Management focused role within FMCG
• Excellent data literacy skills with the ability to illustrate skill in integrating data and insights
• Ability to present in an engaging manner to a variety of stakeholders
• Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders that are both internal and external and is a multitasker who works well both independently and as part of a team
• Inquisitive approach and able to generate creative and effective solutions

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.
Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member - you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.
At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.
Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.