Category Development Executive | Grocery & FMCG

£45,000-£55,000 + Bonus + Pension + Excellent Career Progression

Hybrid | Maidenhead (2-3 days per week)

We’re supporting a rapidly growing FMCG business looking to appoint a Category Development Executive to join its commercial team.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to take the next step in their category career, working across major grocery retailers and supporting the delivery of category strategy, customer insight and commercial growth.

Working closely with an experienced Category Development Manager, you’ll gain exposure to all major retail customers whilst building your experience across category analysis, shopper insight, retailer recommendations and commercial planning.

What you’ll be doing

• Analyse category, shopper and retailer performance data.
• Support category reviews and customer presentations.
• Develop retailer-specific recommendations using market insight.
• Work with Sales, Marketing and Commercial teams to identify growth opportunities.
• Support new product launches, promotional reviews and range recommendations.
• Produce compelling insight-led customer selling stories.
• Monitor category performance and identify commercial opportunities.

We’d love to hear from people currently working as:

• Category Executive
• Assistant Category Manager
• Category Analyst
• Customer Category Executive
• Shopper Marketing Executive (with strong category exposure)
• Commercial Graduate (FMCG)

You’ll ideally have experience of:

• FMCG or Consumer Goods.
• Grocery retailers.
• NielsenIQ, Circana or Kantar.
• Category analysis and market insight.
• Retailer presentations.
• Excel and data analysis.
• Cross-functional working with Sales and Marketing.

This role offers outstanding development and is ideal for someone looking to build a long-term career in Category Development within a fast-paced FMCG environment.