Category Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute short, and longer-term category strategies in alignment with regional and global business objectives.

• Collaborate with internal department to translate market trends, customer insights, and technical capabilities into clear product value propositions.

• Drive and coordinate category initiatives/projects with multi-functional teams, in response to growth opportunities, and market needs.

• Develop customer-facing content such as presentations, brochures, and digital marketing assets with strong technical accuracy, participate in customer meetings alongside Sales to showcase flavour solutions, technical concepts, and application benefits.

• Drive innovation projects for key customers to achieve new business and market expansion.

• Monitor product performance, steer and facilitate technical product developments, support pricing for competitiveness analysis.

• Gather internal and customer feedback, translating it into actionable insights for product improvement or innovation.

• Share and faciliate best practices and category knowledge across regional affiliates.

• Support regional or local trade events, customer seminars, and innovation showcases.

• Support global category initiatives and regional alignment with global strategy.

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, Marketing or related discipline. 

• Preferable 5 years experience flavour, food ingredient, or FMCG category/product management

• Strong understanding of market trends, consumer behaviour, and innovation processes.

• Ability to manage cross-functional collaboration across regional teams.

• Good analytical, communication, and presentation skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Powerpoint and Excel