Job Description:
Job Title: Junior Category Manager – Tesco (T1)
Location: Waltham (Hybrid)
Reporting to the Category Leadership Director and working in collaboration with the Senior Category Manager, you’ll be responsible for delivering best in class category leadership to drive growth. Using a mix of market, shopper and customer insights to identify category growth opportunities, you leverage & execute these through excellence in key Category Leadership initiatives, tactics and practices.
In this role, you will partner with the Senior Category Manager to co-create our picture of success and shape strategic plans that bring our category vision to life — delivering a triple win for shoppers, Tesco and Mars. You will play a key role in shaping range review recommendations, using a variety of data sources to land distribution and Perfect Store recommendations aligned to our channel and brand portfolio strategy. You will also take ownership of key category projects and lead the category relationship for Tesco Express.
What are we looking for?
- Degree educated or equivalent professional experience.
- Excellent customer engagement skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and provide strategic category guidance.
- Experience in Category Management, with a proven ability to drive category growth and performance.
- Solid understanding of the FMCG industry and retail environment.
- Highly analytical, with the ability to translate data and insights into actionable strategies and customer-focused recommendations.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Analyse a wide range of data into insight that creates foresight and recommended action which delivers the category triple win.
- High level of energy and proactive drive for results. Can be counted on to deliver seeking opportunities / areas for improvements for self and others.
- Delivers what they say they will, when they say they will and known for their accuracy
- Apply financial rigor and analytical concepts to make sound judgements and quick decisions with full company and industry knowledge.
- Able to influence action from others by understanding needs and articulating benefits, value propositions and business solutions that meet those needs.
- The ability to build strategic alignment with internal and external Customers through developing and leveraging collaborative relationships.
- Understand and contribute to established business planning processes and use available tools efficiently and effectively.
- Ability to build collaborative category relationships with internal and external customers.
- Co-operative, able to find common ground, encourages collaboration, a team player.
- Uses time and resources efficiently. Able to focus on the right areas and manage time effectively.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose-driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Skills Required
- Degree educated or equivalent professional experience
- Experience in Category Management with proven ability to drive category growth and performance
- Excellent customer engagement and stakeholder influencing skills
- Solid understanding of the FMCG industry and retail environment
- Highly analytical and able to translate data and insights into actionable, customer-focused strategies
- Ability to apply financial rigour and make quick, informed decisions
- Strong collaboration, time management and delivery focus
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
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