Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Category Manager to join the Ooni team. Working as part of our Category Management team, you’ll lead on shaping our product roadmap and driving strategy for our market leading product range. You’ll function as our in-house expert on consumer markets and ensure our customers are always at the heart of our product development. In this role you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and delivery of category growth strategy, improving profitability and optimising our portfolio mix.
What you’ll do
* Work closely with our Head of Product Category Management to develop and implement category strategic plans and frameworks that focus on driving growth and profitability.
* Deeply understand both the internal and external business needs. Use this knowledge to build out market leading segmentation plans, and communicate and implement these plans to the wider business.
* Set global pricing architecture grounded in market knowledge and business objectives.
* Regularly review the product lifecycle plans recommending adjustments where appropriate.
* Brief new products into the Marketing team for the creation of packaging, collateral, and product launch assets.
* Lead the strategic feedback loop by working closely with our Product team throughout the NPD process to ensure we deliver best in class products that exceed consumer expectations.
* Alongside the Sales and Marketing teams, lead on go-to-market planning.
* Category lead on major retailer line reviews for new products introductions as the product expert.
* Participate in demand planning activities with the sales, operations, and finance teams, offering forecast recommendations based on deep market insight.
* Working with the Planning team, oversee product lifecycle post-launch, including tracking product performance, monitoring issues, identifying improvement opportunities and coordinating end of life processes.
* Understand, report on, and offer insight into Ooni’s product and category financials.
* Lead on process optimisation - continually auditing and improving internal category processes and ways of working.
* Set annual SMART goals combined with recommendations on the strategic levers that can be used to achieve our business objectives.
What you’ll need to succeed
* Proven category management expertise - significant experience leading category, product, or brand strategies within consumer goods, ideally with a premium or design-led brand.
* Commercial acumen - a strong understanding of how category strategy drives growth, margin, and market share. You can translate insight into actionable commercial decisions.
* Consumer obsession - you have deep empathy for the end user and use insight and data to keep the customer at the heart of every decision.
* Strategic mindset with hands-on delivery - equally comfortable shaping long-term direction and rolling up your sleeves to make it happen.
* Analytical and data-driven - confident working with financials, forecasts, and performance metrics to guide recommendations and prioritisation.
* Collaborative leadership - skilled at partnering across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Operations to drive alignment and deliver best-in-class launches.
* Excellent communicator and influencer - able to present category strategies and insights clearly to senior stakeholders and external partners.
* Global mindset - experienced in building and managing category strategies across multiple markets and channels.
* Passion for great products and design - genuine enthusiasm for bringing innovative, high-quality products to customers worldwide.
Why Ooni?
When you join one of our global teams, you’re joining a dedicated group of do-ers who value Kindness, Passion, Innovation, Ambition and Rigor above all else. We live, work and play by these values and are proud of what we’ve built here. As a member of our team, you will also receive the following:
* Annual staff credit to spend on Ooni products each year, plus 50% discount on any other Ooni stuff
* £500 every year to spend on your passion – whatever that may be
* 35 days of paid time off per year, plus an additional 5 week sabbatical when you’ve been here for 5 years
* Work for an employer that cares about your wellbeing! We’ve got an employee assistance programme which includes on demand coaching and therapy sessions
* We’re all about giving back. That’s why we offer five paid days to volunteer each year
* Oh and great pizza every single day if you want it. We have our products set up in each of our offices and will teach you how to make pizza like a pro during onboarding.
Having a fantastic culture is really important to all of us at Ooni. We work hard to make it diverse and inclusive, and want everyone to have access to the same opportunities. If you would like this advert in a different format or need an alternative method of applying, please let us know. You can email us at jobs@ooni.com