Job Title: Category Manager
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Location: Kingston-upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: 9 Jun 2025
Job Purpose
The Magnum Ice Cream Company is the ice cream category leader, responsible for delivering best-in-class category leadership across the UK market, driving insight-led growth, and building trust with customers. The candidate will build and maintain credible, long-term relationships internally and externally, acting as the voice of the customer, consumer, and shopper to deliver actionable insights that create category value.
Responsibilities
- Manage relationships with key customer contacts, delivering category growth recommendations.
- Translate insights into actions through analysis and evaluation of category plans, including seasonal range reviews.
- Utilize data sources like Nielsen, Kantar, and retailer loyalty data to generate recommendations.
- Create tailored category strategies based on consumer and shopper insights.
- Use space planning tools to analyze and recommend merchandising strategies.
- Support and develop the category management team.
- Represent the voice of the customer, shopper, and consumer within the organization.
About You
- Deep industry knowledge, including trade classes, customer groups, and industry trends.
- Strong customer relationship and stakeholder management skills.
- Effective team player.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
- Analytical skills to evaluate data and generate actionable insights.
- Strong project management and planning skills.
- Line management experience.
- Innovative and solution-oriented mindset with strategic thinking.
- Self-motivated.
Additional Information
Unilever is a leading global supplier of Food, Home, and Personal Care products with over 400 brands. We are committed to sustainability, diversity, and inclusion, and offer flexible working policies, development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.