Role: Category Marketing Manager
Rate: £600 p/d Inside IR35
Location: Southampton HQ - Hybrid Model (1 day p/w)
Duration: 3 months initial
As a Category Marketing Manager, you'll be shaping the future of your category at the heart of one of the UK's most loved brands. You'll be the single marketing point of contact for your category, using customer insight and commercial priorities to shape annual marketing plans, set direction, and lead the briefs that bring them to life across channels.
Responsibilities:
1. Own and deliver the annual category marketing plan - insight-led, customer-focused, and aligned to business and marketing priorities.
2. Lead quarterly reviews of the plan with the category leadership team and MLT, ensuring objectives are met, insights embedded, and forward plans adapted.
3. Act as single point of contact for all category marketing activity - shaping initiatives, managing trade-offs, and ensuring seamless execution across channels.
4. Champion customer insight and category expertise - becoming the authority on customer behaviours, needs, and perceptions within your category.
5. Brief and lead cross-functional teams - setting clear direction for creative, channels, and agencies, ensuring consistency and integration across touchpoints.
6. Balance trading needs and brand building - delivering short-term sales-driving initiatives alo...