At The Arnott's Group, we're building the future of Better For You – in Macro Snacking & Breakfast.
As Category Manager - BFY, you'll own a diverse portfolio spanning brands includingMother Earth, Sunsol, SnackRight, Heritage Mill and others, helping shape how Australians snack, break fast and fuel their day.
This is not a traditional category role.
We're looking for someone who can bring together commercial thinking, category expertise and strategic influence to drive growth in a fast-moving portfolio.
You'll lead major category reviews with Coles and Woolworths, input into an large, agile innovation pipeline, and translate insights into actionable recommendations that drive outcomes across all aspects of BFY.
Working closely with Marketing, Sales and cross-functional teams, you'll play a critical role in identifying opportunities, building compelling category stories and ensuring our brands punch above their weight in highly competitive categories.
About You
You're curious, commercially confident and thrive in complexity.
You enjoy turning insights into action, building influential category narratives and partnering with customers to unlock growth opportunities.
You're equally comfortable analyzing a plethora of qual & quant data, developing innovation forecasts and presenting succinct strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders and customers.
You'll bring strong FMCG category experience along with the ability to manage multiple priorities without losing sight of the bigger picture.
What Your Days Look Like
Leading category strategies across a diverse nutritional snacks and breakfast portfolio, applying them to enable independent growth and simultaneous cohesion between multiple TAG BFY brands
Partnering closely with Coles and Woolworths to deliver category growth initiatives




Owning end-to-end 6P deep dives & category range review processes across multiple categories and brands
Managing inputs to numerous innovation and stage-gate projects simultaneously
Developing customer-facing category stories, recommendations and presentations
Converting category insights, shopper data and market trends into actionable 6P business strategies across multiple brands
Ideating opportunities from insights, which turn into financial projections, run-rate forecasts and commercial recommendations for NPI, the Brand Planning & Stage Gate process
Collaborating with numerous stakeholders across Marketing, Sales, RGM and broader cross-functional teams on a day to day basis
Influence both internal and external stakeholders with well crafted, insight led story telling to land strategic recommendations
Supporting innovation opportunities from concept through to shelf execution
The Ingredients for Success
Demonstrated Category Management experience within FMCG
Strong experience working with Coles and Woolworths categories
Proven capability leading end-to-end range reviews
Experience managing multiple projects, launches or innovation initiatives concurrently
Strong commercial acumen, including exposure to P&Ls;, forecasting and category financials
Experience working within stage-gate innovation processes




Ability to translate data and insights into explicit strategic recommendations
Proficient in IRI/Nielsen/Unify/Quantium
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
Strong presentation skills with confidence engaging customers and senior stakeholders succinctly
Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Background in snacking, breakfast, health food, grocery or broader FMCG categories preferred
Why This Role is Different
This portfolio operates across multiple brands, categories and innovation streams, creating significantly more variety and complexity than a traditional category role.
You'll manage multiple range reviews, innovation projects and customer initiatives at any one time while working across a broad and growing Better For You portfolio.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape category strategy, influence major retail customers and drive innovation from concept through to shelf, in a dynamic Macro Snacking & Breakfast Landscape.
Benefits
Hybrid working arrangements
Access to learning and development opportunities
Career progression within a leading FMCG organisation
Health and wellbeing initiatives
Product discounts and company benefits
Opportunity to work on iconic Australian brands and emerging Better For You categories
Our Culture
At The Arnott's Group, you'll work with passionate people who are committed to creating food Australians love.
We value curiosity, ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Whether you're helping shape the next innovation launch or building category strategies with our retail partners, you'll be empowered to make an impact and contribute to the future growth of our business.
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📌 Category Manager - Nutritional Snacks (New South Wales)
🏢 The Arnott's Group
📍 New South Wales