The Senior Retail Category Manager leads category strategy to enhance commercial results, driving insights-led engagement with retailers and managing a category team.
Position Title: Senior Retail Category Manager
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41832
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role .
We're looking for a Senior Retail Category Manager to lead category strategy and elevate commercial outcomes across our retail channel. This role drives long‑term category thinking, influences business-wide planning, and strengthens our partnerships with major Australian retailers.
You'll shape the category vision, champion insights‑led conversations, and guide internal teams in delivering strategies that unlock growth and profitability.
About You .
What you'll be doing.
What you'll need to be successful.
About the team .
You'll be part of a highly collaborative, insights‑driven commercial team. This role partners closely with Marketing, Sales, Finance, Insights and cross‑functional Category Leadership teams (Operations, Supply Chain, R&D). You'll play a pivotal role in shaping category direction and influencing business decisions across the retail channel.
About McCain .
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles .
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
#LI-AK1
* We've got this covered! No external agency support is required at this time and unsolicited CVs will not be considered.
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.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Sales
Division: ANZ
Department: Category Management Retail
Location(s): AU - Australia : Victoria : Melbourne
Company: McCain Foods (Aust) Pty.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41832
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role .
We're looking for a Senior Retail Category Manager to lead category strategy and elevate commercial outcomes across our retail channel. This role drives long‑term category thinking, influences business-wide planning, and strengthens our partnerships with major Australian retailers.
You'll shape the category vision, champion insights‑led conversations, and guide internal teams in delivering strategies that unlock growth and profitability.
About You .
What you'll be doing.
- Lead the ANZ category vision and 3 ‑ year strategy for the retail channel, using insights to identify growth opportunities.
- Shape AOC planning to influence brand, private label, sales, and innovation strategies.
- Deliver ongoing category performance reviews, insights, and reporting for key stakeholders.
- Drive strategic, insights ‑ led retailer engagement and lead conversations on ranging, pricing, and future opportunities.
- Lead, coach, and prioritise the work of a small category team, ensuring high‑quality insights, clear direction, and strong stakeholder outcomes.
- Provide optimisation recommendations across range, space, and portfolio architecture.
- Support joint business planning and activation across in ‑ store and e ‑ commerce channels.
What you'll need to be successful.
- 5+ years' experience leading category management for major retailers, including range, space, price, and promotional optimisation.
- Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing a team to deliver high‑quality outcomes.
- Proven experience influencing cross‑functional teams within a complex matrix environment.
- Strong understanding of established Australian retailers and emerging channel dynamics.
- Ability to influence without authority and build collaborative internal and external partnerships.
- Demonstrated success in category growth, profitability improvement, and insights‑driven strategy.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with business qualifications preferred.
About the team .
You'll be part of a highly collaborative, insights‑driven commercial team. This role partners closely with Marketing, Sales, Finance, Insights and cross‑functional Category Leadership teams (Operations, Supply Chain, R&D). You'll play a pivotal role in shaping category direction and influencing business decisions across the retail channel.
About McCain .
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles .
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
#LI-AK1
* We've got this covered! No external agency support is required at this time and unsolicited CVs will not be considered.
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.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Sales
Division: ANZ
Department: Category Management Retail
Location(s): AU - Australia : Victoria : Melbourne
Company: McCain Foods (Aust) Pty.
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