Sr. Category Manager

Senior Category Manager

Glanbia  

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey 

The Opportunity 

With a mission to inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance goals, Glanbia Performance Nutrition is the world’s leading premium sports nutrition company, with leading brands such as Optimum Nutrition, Isopure, BSN and Nutramino in our portfolio. We are also a significant growth driver for the overall Glanbia group. As a values-led organisation, we also focus on driving sustainable business performance the right way.

The role of Senior Category Manager will be directly responsible for building customer relationship across all of our customer portfolio. An externally facing position, this role will build relationships via compelling stories and work to unlock new relationships at our retailers positioning Glanbia as Category leader. The role will look to inspire and engage retailers and therefore lead the direction of retailers thinking for the upcoming years supported with a category manager to provide the relevant toolkit to win externally.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate high influencing and engagement skills and have a proven track record of building strong retailer relationships from scratch

Responsibilities

• Deliver best in class selling stories for our category and brands, which engage and inspire our customers to partner with us for growth.
• Ability to inspire and engage through interactions.
• Innovative, solution focused mind set and ability to drive collaboration across different functional groups to achieve goals 
• Passion to make significant contributions to GPN through continuous process & ways of working improvement 
• Execute short and long term strategies and activities consistent with GPN objectives & goals
• To develop strong customer relationships within the structure of the business from commercial team, marketing and innovation
• Work closely with sales and cat/shopper team on developing and tracking of sales fundamentals gains in-store (distribution, share of shelf, quality of shelf, activation buy-ins)
• Work with retailers to become THE go to trusted partner for category recommendations and advice
• Build strong relationships with key industry contacts
• Represent GPN at customer events and forums

 The Skills you will bring to the team

• Experience of category management & proven track record of winning partnerships both internally and externally.
• Drive to keep up to date in consumer and shopper trends
• Proven experience of working in a fast paced, high growth environment
• Proven experience of collaborating across key external stakeholders
• Past demonstrable experience of building engaging, exciting customer strategy stories
• Understands the different needs of customers
• Ability to communicate and influence effectively
• Good common sense and initiative.
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills.

If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please apply!

Where and how you will work  

The opportunity will be based in London with hybrid working arrangements available through our Smart working model which allows you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.  

What we would like to offer you!  

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and acompetitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary.

About Glanbia  

The Glanbia Group comprises three divisions: Glanbia Performance Nutrition, Glanbia Nutritional's, and Joint Ventures. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 6,000 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading products in 130 countries worldwide.  

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.