Senior Category Manager - FMCG Focus

About the Role

Join SC Johnson as a Senior Category Manager, a pivotal role that drives commercial success and shapes the future of our brand across top retail partners. This position is based in Frimley, England, and offers a unique opportunity to work remotely while leading our Category & Trade Solutions team. As a Senior Category Manager, you will leverage global and regional insights to create actionable strategies that enhance category performance and brand growth.

What You'll Do

• Lead the Category & Trade Solutions team, translating insights into powerful, actionable strategies that drive category, customer, and brand growth across key UK retailers.
• Develop customer-specific category strategies and commercial recommendations using global, regional, and local data sources, including Nielsen and panel data.
• Build strong senior-level relationships with major UK retailers, influencing decisions and helping improve their category performance.
• Deliver clear insights on retailer performance, market trends, and growth opportunities, including planogram leadership and weekly performance analysis.
• Utilize Sales Fundamentals tools to identify opportunities and drive aligned action plans across the business.
• Ensure seamless flow of insights across Category, BAMs, Customer Marketing, Regional Marketing, and Market Strategy & Planning.
• Share best-practice shopper insights and support capability building across the UK Commercial team.
• Manage and leverage multiple research and data tools, including syndicated, panel, qualitative, and quantitative shopper research.

Requirements

• Significant FMCG experience, including retailer category reviews and interaction, shopper research, budget management, and execution of business plans.
• Strong knowledge of Category Management principles, processes, and practices.
• Graduate with a degree in Marketing, Business Management, or a related field.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to work with all levels within a cross-functional organization.
• Proven ability to build relationships at junior and senior levels with challenging customers.
• Willingness to travel as required for customer meetings.

Nice to Have

• Experience in leading cross-functional projects.
• Familiarity with advanced data analytics tools.
• Previous experience in a remote work environment.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary + bonus + car allowance.
• Flexible start and finish times & 4.5-day working week.
• Pension, health insurance & life cover.
• Free parking, EV charging, cycle-to-work scheme & shuttle bus.
• Onsite gym with free classes & NEW spin studio.