Category Manager – Male Grooming & Beauty

Join Philips as a Category Manager for Male Grooming & Beauty in the UK. You will be responsible for shaping the future of this fast-growing category by creating insight-led trade stories, monitoring trends, and managing range reviews. This role involves building strong relationships with retailers and collaborating with internal teams to execute category plans, ultimately driving category growth and ensuring a triple win.

Must Have

• Create compelling, insight-led trade stories using data from multiple sources
• Develop category initiatives that deliver category growth and secure retailer buy-in
• Monitor and evaluate category, shopper, and competitor trends
• Develop actionable insights and recommendations across categories
• Own range reviews from creating the brief to follow up
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with retailers
• Influence partners via impartial category expertise to influence change
• Partner closely with sales, marketing, and internal teams for seamless execution
• Strong communication and influencing skills, both internal and external
• Ability to manage projects across multiple functions
• Proven analytical skills—fluent with GFK, Nielsen, and consumer data tools
• Ability to turn online and offline data into meaningful insights that drive action
• Concise and compelling storytelling
• At least three years of category management experience

Category Manager – Male Grooming & Beauty UK

Shape the Future of Male Grooming & Beauty with a Global Leader!

At Philips, we’re redefining personal care and empowering people everywhere to look and feel their best. Join us as a Category Manager, responsible for Male Grooming & Beauty taking control of a high-impact category. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a fast-growing category by ensuring the triple win is delivered for your category.

You are responsible for:

• Creating compelling, insight-led trade stories using data from multiple sources to develop category initiatives that deliver category growth and secure retailer buy-in.
• Monitor and evaluate category, shopper, and competitor trends to develop actionable insights and recommendations across your categories to your retailers in combination with the Insight & Analytics teams.
• Range reviews ownership from creating the brief, managing the process, reporting on outcome, and follow up to ensure objectives are met and recommendations implemented.
• Building strong, collaborative relationships with retailers. Influencing partners via impartial category expertise to influence change.
• Partner closely with sales, marketing and other internal teams to ensure seamless execution of category plans.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Strong communication and influencing skills, both internal and external.
• Ability to manage projects across multiple functions both internally and externally.
• Proven analytical skills—fluent with GFK, Nielsen, and consumer data tools.
• Ability to turn online and offline data into meaningful insights that drive action.
• Concise and compelling storytelling.
• Category management experience of at least three years.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

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