Sydney | Full Time | Hybrid

**Summary:

At McPherson's , we're passionate about building trusted health and beauty brands that make a difference in people's everyday lives. With a portfolio of market leading brands including Dr. LeWinn's, Manicare, Lady Jayne, Fusion Health and Swisspers , we're focused on delivering sustainable growth through innovation, customer partnerships and category excellence.

We're looking for a commercially minded and highly analytical Category Manager to join our Commercial team for a 6 month contract and play a pivotal role in strengthening our category capability through data led insights, tools and frameworks that support customer-focused decision making and drive growth. This role will be reporting to the Head of Category & Commercial Activation.

The Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced category professional who enjoys turning data into actionable insights and influencing business decisions through compelling category stories.

Working closely with Commercial, Marketing and Finance teams, you'll help shape category strategy, support key customer initiatives, improve processes and develop scalable tools that enable smarter decision-making across the business.

Where You Will Work

You’ll be based at our new Sydney CBD head office. This location reflects the evolution of our business - modern, connected, and designed to bring our teams closer together.

What You'll Be Responsible For

- Developing and maintaining monthly category performance reporting across McPherson's portfolio, translating data into meaningful insights, trends and recommendations
- Building customer-ready category stories, insights and analysis to support range review submissions across key customers and priority banners.
- Supporting the NPD gate process by providing size of prize and cannibalisation data
- Creating scalable category tools,



templates and analytical frameworks, including SKU prioritisation, PQA (portfolio quadrant analysis) by channel.
- Identifying category growth drivers, distribution opportunities and whitespace opportunities to support customer planning and future growth initiatives.
- Improving the efficiency, consistency and quality of category outputs through enhanced processes, templates and ways of working

What Success Looks Like

- Timely delivery of monthly category reporting and presentations.
- Strong support for range reviews and customer submissions.
- Improved accuracy of category recommendations and NPD decision-making.
- Development of scalable category tools and frameworks that improve efficiency and insight quality.
- Identification of meaningful growth opportunities across customers and channels.

What You'll Bring

- Previous experience in a Category Management role, within FMCG, consumer goods or retail.
- Strong analytical capability with advanced Excel and data modelling skills.
- Experience working with syndicated data sources such as Circana, IQVIA or similar.
- Ability to turn complex data into clear, compelling and commercially relevant recommendations.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to collaborate across commercial, marketing and finance functions.
- Solid presentation and insight storytelling capability.
- A proactive, curious and continuous improvement mindset.

Why Join McPherson's?

- Work with an iconic Australasian portfolio of trusted health and beauty brands.
- Opportunity to influence strategic category decisions and build capability across the business.
- Collaborative, values-led culture that supports flexibility and wellbeing.
- Work alongside experienced commercial leaders and contribute to meaningful business transformation initiatives.

If you're passionate about category, data and driving business growth through insight, we'd love to hear from you. Click ‘Apply Now’.**

📌 Category Manager - 6 Month Contract (Sydney)
🏢 McPherson's Consumer Products
📍 Sydney