Category Manager

## Category ManagerApplyremote type: Hybridlocations: Barcelona , Spaintime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: Essity263481**Category Manager**Ready to shape category growth with leading brands? Join Essity and help us create meaningful impact in the Spanish retail market while growing your career in a collaborative environment.**About the Role**As a Category Manager you will play a key role in driving category growth and shopper engagement across our Tissue portfolio. By combining consumer, shopper and market insights, you will develop customer-focused strategies that strengthen our market position, accelerate growth, and deliver value for both our customers and consumers.Working closely with Sales, Marketing and Field Sales teams, you will influence decision-making, optimize category performance, and bring innovative initiatives to life at the point of sale.**What You Will Do*** **Category Strategy:** Develop and lead Category Management initiatives to drive growth across prioritized channels and key customers.* **Shopper Activation:** Design and implement customer-specific plans covering assortment, distribution, promotion, and in-store visibility.* **Point of Sale Excellence:** Create and coordinate impactful POS materials and activations to support innovations, product launches, and brand campaigns.* **Insight Generation:** Analyze sell-in, sell-out, market and shopper data to identify opportunities and recommend actionable growth plans.* **Budget Management:** Manage the assigned budget, ensuring efficient investment and maximizing return on investment.* **Business Planning:** Contribute to forecasting and annual planning processes by providing category growth projections and recommendations.* **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner with Sales, Marketing and Field Sales teams to deliver integrated customer and category growth initiatives.**Who You Are*** Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, or a related field.* At least 3 years of experience in Consumer Goods, preferably within Category Management, Shopper Marketing, Customer Marketing, or Trade Marketing.* Strong analytical capabilities with experience using market and retailer data sources such as Nielsen and advanced Microsoft Office tools.* A collaborative and proactive professional with strong communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills, able to work effectively across multifunctional teams.* Fluent in Spanish and English.**What We Can Offer You**Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.**Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us**## ## Application End Date:30 jul 2026 #J-18808-Ljbffr