Position Title: Category Manager, Customer Communication
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Category Manager - Customer Communication
At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality-shine through every day. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Your Life - we're here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.
Your Success - work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, drive, and success.
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. Reporting to the Senior Category Manager - Category Strategy, this is a high-impact, execution-focused role at the heart of the Category Growth team. As Category Manager - Customer Communications, you will bring McCain's Customer Value Proposition to life across retail, QSR and foodservice channels-helping to drive brand preference and deliver sustainable customer and business growth.
You'll own the delivery of insight-led, omni-channel customer communications, shaping how McCain shows up with customers at every touchpoint. From leading customer sell-ins and coordinating trade engagement events, to providing sharp commercial analysis that informs planning and decision-making, your work will directly influence commercial outcomes.
Partnering closely with channel and environment specialists, and a broad range of cross-functional teams, you'll ensure communications are relevant, compelling and tailored to customer needs-while remaining agile to changing market dynamics. You'll also play a key role in equipping the GB leadership team with customer insight that supports effective business planning and strategic direction.
By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
Proactively collaborate with Commercial Operations, Sales, Marketing, Innovation and international teams to ensure strong alignment and flawless execution.
Lead Omni-Channel Customer Communications
Develop and deliver best-in-class omni-channel communication plans using the 3Cs framework, ensuring consistent, tailored messaging across all customer touchpoints.
Create high-impact selling tools, presentation materials and communication assets that enable commercial teams and resonate with customer partners.
Continually evolve how McCain communicates with customers, leveraging digital tools, data-led storytelling and new communication formats.
Play a hands-on role in customer sell-ins, leading category and marketing input to deliver compelling, insight-rich presentations across Retail, QSR and Foodservice.
Influence customer stakeholders through structured, data-driven narratives that clearly articulate the value of McCain's Big Bet initiatives.
Deliver Category Insight for Commercial Planning
Provide rigorous, timely analysis of category, consumer and shopper data to support commercial planning and decision-making.
Develop, maintain and enhance omni-channel market tracking to support senior commercial leaders with clear, relevant insight.
Utilise key data sources-including Kantar, Circana and dunnhumby (Retail); Lumina Intelligence and Circana CREST (Foodservice); alongside PowerBI, SAP BI and other tools-to deliver impactful reporting and recommendations.
Track Performance Against Commercial Plans
Apply market and customer insight to monitor performance versus agreed commercial KPIs.
Build and maintain performance dashboards that translate data into clear, concise and actionable updates for senior stakeholders.
Apply Advanced Data & Analytical Capability
Demonstrate strong analytical expertise across retail and foodservice data sources, market research, loyalty data, shopper panels and operator insights.
Translate complex data into practical, value-driven recommendations that support commercial action.
Bring curiosity and pace to the role by exploring and adopting emerging technologies-such as AI-enabled tools-to improve efficiency, accuracy and insight quality.
3-5 years' experience in Category Management, Commercial Support, Insight or Data Analytics within FMCG/CPG, retail or foodservice environments.
~ Hands-on experience with syndicated and customer data, including tools such as Kantar, Circana, dunnhumby (retail) and Lumina Intelligence or Circana CREST (foodservice).
~ A strong analytical mindset, with a proven ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable recommendations that drive commercial decisions.
~ Compelling communication and presentation skills, with experience creating and delivering high-quality, customer-facing selling stories.
~ Being in the office every single day is a thing of the past. Here at McCain, we champion hybrid working. This means we don't have a set expectation of exactly when you need to be in the office - however we do encourage our full-time, office-based people to connect in person with others for around half of their working time as that's the best way for us to build and maintain our connections. Our head office (Customer Experience Centre) is on the outskirts of Scarborough - 1.5 hours away from Leeds City Centre, and about an hour from York. We have lots of colleagues who travel to and from our Experience Centre (even if it is just for a good coffee!) and because hybrid really does mean hybrid at McCain, they get the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues when they're in the office, and balance that with working from home to ensure they get a good life-work balance.
A generous Car Allowance
An achievable yearly bonus based on personal performance.
An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
Optional health cash plan
Cycle to work scheme
'Chips In' Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.
Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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