Location: Uxbridge
Department: Category & Insight
Reporting to: Category Controller
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time, Office Based
We have an exciting opportunity for a Category Marketing Manager to join our Category & Insight team based in Uxbridge.
This role is responsible for driving category growth across key retail customers by identifying opportunities, building trusted customer relationships, and translating shopper, consumer, and market insights into meaningful commercial action. Acting as the voice of the consumer and customer within Pilgrim's Europe, you will help shape category strategies, influence decision-making, and deliver solutions that create sustainable growth for both our customers and our business.
As part of the Pilgrim's Europe way of working, this is an office-based role, supporting close collaboration with internal stakeholders and customer partners.
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Translate data from multiple sources into clear insights, recommendations, and compelling customer presentations.
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Build strong relationships with retail customers, becoming a trusted category partner.
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Develop and deliver category growth plans, including category reviews, range optimisation, NPD recommendations, and in-store and online execution strategies.
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Help define and embed long-term category growth strategies internally and externally.
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Collaborate closely with Commercial, Marketing, Innovation, and Operations teams to ensure category thinking is central to decision-making.
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Identify opportunities through shopper, consumer, market, and category analysis.
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Create engaging category stories that influence customer decisions and support business growth.
We're looking for a commercially minded and insight-driven category professional who enjoys turning data into action.
Essential Skills & Experience
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Minimum 2 years' experience in Category Management, Category Insight, or Shopper Marketing within FMCG.
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Experience working with UK Grocery Multiple Retailers.
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Strong analytical skills with the ability to work across multiple data sources.
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Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
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Ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
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Strong commercial awareness and customer focus.
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Curious mindset with a passion for understanding shopper and consumer behaviour.
Desirable
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Experience within own-label category management.
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Professional qualification in Category Management, Marketing, or Data Analytics (e.g. CIM).
At Pilgrim's Europe, we offer the opportunity to develop your career within one of Europe's leading food businesses.
Our benefits include:
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Competitive salary and benefits package
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Career development opportunities across a global organisation
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Ongoing learning and development programmes
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Employee benefits and discount platform
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Wellbeing support initiatives
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Collaborative and supportive working environment
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The opportunity to shape category strategies with some of the UK's leading retailers
Our Values
Our values are at the heart of everything we do:
Availability ¦ Humility ¦ Discipline ¦ Sincerity ¦ Ownership ¦ Determination ¦ Simplicity
If you're passionate about category growth, customer insight, and building influential partnerships, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now to join Pilgrim's Europe as a Category Marketing Manager.
Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.
Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.
Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.
