Category Marketing Manager (m/f/d), Beverages

Manchester, UK (Hybrid)

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Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own regional category strategy and growth initiatives, guiding cross-functional implementation and driving market intelligence, pipeline, and sales enablement across the region.

  • Lead regional category strategy and growth execution
  • Coordinate cross-functional programs to deliver regional category plans

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Global category plan
  • Category Strategy: Represent their region and join a cross-functional team to develop the global category strategy (5+ yr horizon). Bring specific regional market trends, insights and unmet needs to shape the development of this global category plan. Contribute to the development of the regional technical roadmap for their category.
  • Category Business Reporting: Ensure results are reported consistently across the business. Guide the development of the budget & strategic plan for their category. Conduct on a regular basis an analysis of the profitability of the category and identify actions to improve it.
  • Customers & Growth
  • Customer Engagements & Opportunity Conversion: Participate in customer meetings to build market knowledge, inform solution development and help convert sales opportunities leveraging key insights. Support sales prospecting process through the development of target customer lists; Track progress on engaging with “must win” customers.
  • Market Intelligence: Market & competitor intelligence for the category. Identify share of wallet and headroom for growth by customer. Leverage inputs to shape strategy & plans.
  • Act as the Marketing lead for major category customers and shape account plans.
  • Regional category growth
  • Lead a cross-functional team to drive the implementation of the category annual growth plan.
  • Pipeline Development: Partner with Sales and technical service to drive opportunity pipeline growth for the category.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Food Science/Technology, or related field; postgraduate marketing qualification is a plus.
  • Proven marketing experience, preferably in FMCG/food & beverage, with B2B ingredients exposure.
  • Strong expertise in strategic marketing, including product launches, value proposition development, and go-to-market execution.
  • Solid business acumen with ability to perform financial/category analysis and translate strategy into sales-driven tactics.
  • Excellent storytelling and communication skills to build compelling, insight-led presentations and sales tools.
  • Experience in international environments; fluent in English (written and spoken); SFDC and ingredient knowledge desirable.

Benefits

  • Total Rewards Package – Competitive salary and performance-based pay recognizing your contributions to our success
  • Comprehensive Benefits & Wellness Support – Health, long-term savings, and resources for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being
  • Flexible Work Arrangements – We value flexibility to support you both professionally and personally
  • Career Growth – Learning, training, and development opportunities.
  • Employee Recognition Program – A culture of real-time appreciation, with personalized recognition rewards globally
  • Employee Referral Program – Refer top talent and earn a bonus if they’re hired
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Ingredion

LUV Infinity Group is an exciting UK based umbrella company for a multitude of brands, ranging from nightclubs, bars to restaurants all over the United KingdomLUV Infinity Group has a firm Impression on the UK Nightlife and hospitality industry with our venues bringing thousands of smiles to customers faces every day since 2009; and we only continue to expand and grow today.We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box, being innovative within our ideas & providing the best quality product across each and every diverse brand that we have created.Focusing at the heart of our business, our people; we believe a successful business begins with the people who operate it & we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to what makes us good employers – this is what drives us.

Founded in 2009
Bristol, England, GBR
31 employees (4 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
425M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
31.4%
Referral
5.8%
Social
4%
Paid
5.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~31

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
670