Passionate and entrepreneurialleadership team

The Company

Our client is a market-leading Australian organisation with a strong reputation for innovation, quality and customer focus within the FMCG sector. With a portfolio of well-established brands and an ambitious growth agenda, they are continuing to invest in their people, products and partnerships. This is an opportunity to join a high-performing business where collaboration, commercial thinking and continuous improvement are genuinely valued.

The Role

We are looking for an accomplished Category Manager to take ownership of a dynamic Food & Beverage portfolio and play a key role in driving category performance, market growth and commercial success. Working closely with sales, marketing and key external partners, you will be responsible for developing and executing category strategies that maximise revenue, profitability and customer engagement. From product assortment and pricing initiatives through to promotional activity and category optimisation, you will use data-driven insights to identify opportunities and deliver meaningful business outcomes. A significant focus of the role will be building and maintaining strong supplier relationships, leading regular performance reviews, managing innovation pipelines and ensuring commercial objectives are achieved across the category.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and implement category plans that support sales growth, margin improvement and overall business objectives.
- Manage product range reviews, assortment strategies and pricing recommendations to optimise category performance.
- Build and maintain strategic supplier partnerships, leading regular business reviews and commercial negotiations.




- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver effective promotional calendars and category initiatives.
- Drive new product development opportunities and manage innovation pipelines.
- Lead the planning and execution of trade marketing activities, including merchandising programs, point-of-sale materials and in-store activation strategies.
- Monitor market activity, consumer behaviour and competitor trends to identify risks and uncover growth opportunities.
- Collaborate with key customers on joint business planning and category growth initiatives.
- Prepare compelling commercial proposals and business cases to support category expansion opportunities.
- Utilise category insights and analytics to influence decision-making and improve performance outcomes.

Growing food and beverage category

Great support and systems

Passionate and entrepreneurialleadership team

The Company

Our client is a market-leading Australian organisation with a strong reputation for innovation, quality and customer focus within the FMCG sector. With a portfolio of well-established brands and an ambitious growth agenda, they are continuing to invest in their people, products and partnerships. This is an opportunity to join a high-performing business where collaboration, commercial thinking and continuous improvement are genuinely valued.

The Role





We are looking for an accomplished Category Manager to take ownership of a dynamic Food & Beverage portfolio and play a key role in driving category performance, market growth and commercial success. Working closely with sales, marketing and key external partners, you will be responsible for developing and executing category strategies that maximise revenue, profitability and customer engagement. From product assortment and pricing initiatives through to promotional activity and category optimisation, you will use data-driven insights to identify opportunities and deliver meaningful business outcomes. A significant focus of the role will be building and maintaining strong supplier relationships, leading regular performance reviews, managing innovation pipelines and ensuring commercial objectives are achieved across the category.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and implement category plans that support sales growth, margin improvement and overall business objectives.
- Manage product range reviews, assortment strategies and pricing recommendations to optimise category performance.
- Build and maintain strategic supplier partnerships, leading regular business reviews and commercial negotiations.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver effective promotional calendars and category initiatives.
- Drive current product development opportunities and manage innovation pipelines.
- Lead the planning and execution of trade marketing activities, including merchandising programs, point-of-sale materials and in-store activation strategies.
- Monitor market activity, consumer behaviour and competitor trends to identify risks and uncover growth opportunities.
- Collabor

📌 Category manager (Sydney)
🏢 Futureyou
📍 Sydney