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Category Manager

Chadwicks Group – Island of Ireland Role

About Us:

Chadwicks Group is Ireland's leading builders' merchant, with well-known brands including Chadwicks, Cork Builders Providers, Davies, Telfords, Heitons Steel, The Panelling Centre, Morgans Timber, Proline, HSS Hire & Sitetech in the Republic of Ireland, and MacBlair in Northern Ireland. We're proud to be ranked #9 in the Great Place to Work Index in Ireland and featured on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work for in Europe.

The Role:

As Category Manager, you'll play a key role in managing and developing product categories across Chadwicks Group and MacNaughton Blair. Reporting to the Head of Category, you'll help drive growth, support our central distribution strategy, and ensure we're always offering the best range, value, and service to our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Category Growth: * Support the ongoing development and growth of existing categories, while helping to build new ones such as Garden, Lifestyle, and Electrical.

Supplier Management: * Build and nurture strong supplier relationships, ensuring we get the best terms and the highest quality products for our customers.

Stock & Inventory: * Monitor and manage stock levels across multiple locations, optimising inventory to meet demand and minimise aged stock.

Promotional Activity: * Work with the team to deliver engaging promotional campaigns that showcase our range, drive footfall, and support our online and in-branch sales.

Central Distribution: * Be a key contributor to the evolution and extension of our central distribution model, ensuring efficient supply to all branches.

Stakeholder Engagement: * Collaborate with colleagues across sales, operations, logistics, and marketing, as well as with our suppliers and customers in both ROI and NI.

Digital Support: * Support the development of our online trade platform, , ensuring our digital offer is as strong as our in-branch experience.

Market Insight: * Keep up to date with market trends, competitor activity, and new product developments, bringing fresh ideas to the team.

Continuous Improvement: * Identify opportunities to improve processes, reduce costs, and enhance customer experience.

Teamwork: * Contribute to a positive, inclusive team culture, supporting your colleagues and helping to make Chadwicks Group a Great Place to Work.

Business Travel: * Some travel to branches and suppliers across Ireland and Northern Ireland is part of the role.

Preferred Knowledge & Experience:

• 3+ years' experience in buying, procurement, or category management, ideally in building materials, retail, or a related sector.

• Familiarity with construction materials, industry regulations, and market trends is an advantage.

• Superb negotiation and relationship-building skills.

• Proficiency with category management software and Microsoft Office (especially Excel).

• Analytical mindset with great attention to detail.

• Experience working in a fast-paced, multi-site organisation.

Essential Competencies:

• Commercial awareness and a practical, solutions-focused approach.

• Strong organisational and planning skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work as part of a diverse team and build relationships across the business.

• Flexibility, resilience, and a willingness to learn.

• Motivation to achieve targets and deliver results.

Key Performance Measures:

• Revenue and margin growth in your categories.

• Stock availability, aged stock, and inventory management.

• Supplier performance and cost savings.

• Success of promotional activity and new product launches.

• Stakeholder satisfaction and feedback.

• Contribution to team culture and continuous improvement.

Team & Budget:

• Part of the wider category team.

• No direct reports.

• Purchasing responsibility: €50–100m.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary & Performance Bonus

• Private Health Care Allowance

• Paid Maternity, Paternity, Adoptive & Fertility Leave

• Pension & Colleague Saving Schemes

• Profit Share

• Colleague Discount

• Educational Assistance & Wellness Initiative

• Hybrid working (Monday to Friday, 39 hours per week - Typically 3 days on-site and 2 days remote) and Flexible start/finish time

Don't tick every box‿?

We know that women and people from underrepresented backgrounds may hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. If you're interested in this role but your experience doesn't tick every box, we'd still love to hear from you. At Chadwicks Group, we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

Calling All Category Managers

Join a leading food and nutrition co-operative, committed to delivering high-quality ingredients and products while driving sustainability and growth across global markets. As P&L owner, you'll drive growth, profitability, and innovation within a strategically important portfolio. Working cross-functionally across Sales, Finance, Planning, R&D, and Marketing, you'll shape and execute category strategy, develop new opportunities, and deliver tangible business performance.

This is a high-impact role for a commercially astute leader who can think strategically, act decisively, and influence across a complex value chain.

Role Overview:

• Own and deliver category financial and growth targets.
• Define and execute category strategy aligned to business goals.
• Lead the S&OP process, balancing forecast, supply, and financial performance.
• Drive investment projects and develop new business opportunities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to support innovation, pricing, and go-to-market activity.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience in Category Management, Commercial Management, or Business Development within food ingredients, agri-food, or manufacturing.
• Strong financial and strategic acumen with experience managing P&L performance.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• A proactive, results-oriented mindset with strong communication skills.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global leader in the food and nutrition sector on a high-profile 12-month assignment, with significant scope to make an impact.

For more information on this role call

Location:
Kilkenny - Hybrid

Salary:
Competitive

Job Ref:
9493PL

Our client is a global leader in experience gifts, with a mission to provide unique opportunities for people to connect with loved ones and discover new passions through a wide range of experiences.

They are seeking a passionate and strategic
eCommerce Category Manager
to take ownership of their
Culinary & Wellbeing
product categories across all European markets. This role is key in driving growth and innovation, using a data-led approach to define and execute category strategies that align with customer trends and the company's ambitious goals. The ideal candidate will use a data-driven and research-led approach to oversee category research, benchmarking, and performance analysis, ensuring strategic alignment across multiple European markets while driving growth and profitability.

What will you do?

• Campaign Management:
  Oversee category research, benchmarking, and performance analysis to define the ideal product mix and roadmap.
• Content Creation:
  Define the optimal assortment strategy, ensuring a strong balance of best-selling products and innovative new launches. This includes analyzing sales data and customer insights to determine which products to launch, maintain, or remove.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  Work closely with key stakeholders, including Operations, Marketing, and Editorial teams, to ensure seamless execution and align on content needs, product setup, and strategy.
• Performance Monitoring & Optimization:
  Track and analyze the performance of existing products, recommending improvements or replacements, and continuously test and iterate on category strategy based on real-time data and analytics.

What are we looking for?

• 3+ years of experience in category management or a similar eCommerce role.
• Industry knowledge or direct experience in the Culinary and/or Wellbeing sectors.
• A strong analytical mindset with the ability to forecast sales and assess market potential.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency in market analysis tools, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Bonus if you have:

• Fluency in another European language.
• Experience in a fast-paced work environment.
• Creative mindset with an eye for trends and innovation.

Looking to take the next step in your procurement career?

At Barden, we're delighted to be working on a
Procurement Category Manager
opportunity with a global business that's undergoing exciting transformation across its procurement function.

This is not just a "category management" role - it's a chance to step into a strategic position where you'll influence how procurement delivers value on a global scale. Working across diverse indirect spend areas, this role is ideal for someone who enjoys both the analytical side of procurement and the relationship-building it takes to deliver real change. This will be a 6 month initial contract.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

You'll be part of a collaborative global procurement team and take ownership of key indirect categories. You'll use data to uncover opportunities, lead strategic sourcing initiatives, and help shape supplier strategies that support wider business goals. There's real scope here to create something better - more efficient, more aligned, more future-focused.

• Developing and delivering sourcing strategies for indirect categories in line with global business objectives.
• Collaborating with cross-functional and international teams to understand needs and influence outcomes.
• Leading supplier negotiations, building long-term supplier strategies, and managing contracts.
• Creating preferred supplier frameworks that bring clarity and consistency.
• Using data to drive decision-making, uncover savings, and spark innovation.
• Supporting procurement transformation projects with a continuous improvement mindset.

ABOUT THE PERSON:

• If you've got 5 years' experience
  in procurement or category management, particularly in indirect spend, this could be the right next step.
• We're looking for someone who's commercially minded, confident working with data, and comfortable navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong Excel skills are a must, and any experience with procurement tools or digital transformation projects would be a bonus.
• Above all, you'll be someone who wants to make a difference - not just in savings, but in how procurement is done.

Curious?

If you think this sounds like you (or you're not sure and want to chat it through), don't hesitate to reach out for a confidential discovery call.

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Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers' toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

As a Category Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Responsible for the commercial, strategic and tactical operational management of contract manufacturing suppliers to ensure product availability by developing and maintaining a competitive supply base for Solventum.
• Manages and partners with suppliers to develop business relationships that deliver effective operational control to agreed performance levels (service/performance, cost, quality and working capital) via contractual agreements, periodic business reviews and scorecards.
• Identifies, leads & implements solutions to complex and multi-faceted situations including contract negotiations, category strategies, supplier management, internal/external sources of supply and dual-sourcing decisions.
• Engages with key affiliates within Solventum (Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Business team, Regulatory, etc.) to ensure timely issue resolution and completion of strategic business projects.
• Develops continuous supply chain improvement practices to support the focus on delivering improved value and performance levels (e.g. lead time reductions, increasing supply chain agility, capacity availability, cost reductions, risk assessments/risk mitigations, etc).
• Engages and leads (as needed): RFP/RFQ process, contract negotiations, benchmarking activities, make vs buy reviews/decisions, should cost analysis, total cost analysis, supply chain mapping and New Product Introduction initiatives.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher AND seven (7) years of experience in a third-party supply chain and/or category management environment's with demonstrated experience in managing and developing supplier relationships including contract negotiation.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Medical device experience or experience in a Federal Government regulated environment
• Leadership, decision-making, problem-solving and negotiation skills to include, demonstrated success in resolving complex supply chain related issues with multiple stakeholders and win-win outcomes, when possible.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team leader/member skills at all levels of the organization.
• Working knowledge of Quality Systems (FDA/ISO) within a regulated environment and an ERP/ASCP system (SAP-preferred).
• High understanding of Supply Chain Finance (strong financial acumen), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), product validation requirements and Regulatory expectations.
• Experience successfully collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on complex projects.

Work Type: Remote (there may be some requirements to attend onsite in line with business needs)

Work location: Position must be based in Ireland (within 150 miles of Athlone, Westmeath).

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic or international

Relocation Assistance: Not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

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Procurement Category Manager (Grade VII) (Permanent Wholetime) (Reference 535/2025)
The Procurement Category Manager plays a strategic leadership role within TU Dublins Procurement Function, responsible for developing and delivering category strategies that align with the Universitys strategic objectives and public procurement regulations. The role focuses on optimising value for money, ensuring compliance with Irish and EU procurement legislation, and fostering strong supplier and stakeholder relationships.

Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders and the wider procurement team, the Category Manager leads the planning and execution of procurement activities across defined spend categories. This includes market analysis, stakeholder engagement, tender management, and contract negotiation. role also contributes to continuous improvement initiatives, sustainability goals, and innovation in procurement practices

Hours of Work:
A
35
hour working week is in operation.

Location:
The post will be based at one of the TU Dublin Campuses i.e. Aungier Street, Bolton Street, Grangegorman, Blanchardstown or Tallaght. Regular attendance at other sites will be required.

Salary
The Grade VII Salary Scale is:

€60,475 - €78,016

Appointments will be made at the appropriate point on the appropriate scale.

Closing Date:
5pm (Irish Time) on Friday 31st October 2025.
Application details/procedure:
For further information, or to make an online application for the above post, please visit

TU Dublin is an equal opportunities employer.

Skills
Procurement management Development Compliance

Benefits
Work From Home

Position Snapshot
**Business Area: Nestlé Ireland – Confectionery

Customer Category Manager

Location: CityWest, Dublin (Hybrid 2/3 days a week in the office)

Salary €70,000 - €75,000 depending on experience + car allowance + competitive 25 days holiday with 12 additional flex days on top of allowance + 2 paid volunteering days + generous pension scheme + excellent company-wide benefits.
Championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business.
At Nestlé we are proud to support and provide equality of opportunity that supports employees to effectively blend their work life and commitments through hybrid and flexible working arrangements, so speak to us to understand what this could look like for you.
Position Summary**
Working as part of our team within Nestlé Ireland Confectionery, we have an exciting and challenging Customer Category Manager position available where you will be responsible for the development, management and execution of our Customer Category Plans for a number of retailers. This role will be reporting into our Country Category Manager for Confectionery and will be part of a team who share the value of open communication to generate impact and return towards our common goals.

A day in the life of a Customer Category Manager…
The purpose of the role is to develop tailor and deploy, at a customer level, channel & category plans and point of purchase solutions, to deliver Nestlé market share growth and overall category growth, whilst ensuring impartiality with the customer.

Key responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Co-create clear and deliverable channel, format and customer portfolio strategies for the specified channels with strong alignment to the Category Strategy growth opportunities
• Develop and oversee the implementation of the Perfect Store model within strategically aligned channels and customers, working with relevant stakeholders and partners to realise it.
• Support the channel strategy integration into Nestlé's plans to accelerate our category growth by defining the priorities and achieving cross functional commitment to deliver the outcome.
• Be a leading category and channel development voice within the customer to influence their strategy across their outlets/customer base, with a particular focus on unlocking the category and channel growth opportunities through ranging, placement and point of purchase execution. (physical and virtual).
• Be a champion for the channel and customer within the annual Integrated Commercial Planning cycle.
• Lead the insight development and reporting for the Ireland Confectionery Business - closely monitor industry and competitor activity, to ensure our strategic commercial vision is in line with market demands in a constantly changing, competitive environment that we work in.

What Will Make You Successful
To be successful, you will be comfortable working in an agile environment and will have category or sales experience, with a demonstrable record of success in delivering growth for Nestlé & our customers. You will be an energised and results driven individual with an ability to connect insights and build them into credible commercial strategies that get executed across teams internally and externally. Relationship building is key to success in this role so you should be able to demonstrate an excellent relationship building ability internally, externally and within multifunctional teams. You will also:

• Be able to conduct strong data analysis and have the ability to draw out the key insights along with recommended actions to be taken.
• Understand the importance of working in a customer centric way.
• Evidence of flexibility and agility and use of initiative to solve challenges rapidly and often creatively.
• Love of learning, understanding and communicating the 'so what' of the data and ability to share this both externally and internally in a compelling way.

What You Need To Know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you'd expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

Job advert posting date 07/10/2025

Job advert closing date 21/10/2025

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don't delay in submitting your application.

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My Client is one of the leading Retail/ FMCG organisations in the Irish and International marketplace and due to an internal promotion; a vacancy has arose on the Category team. This is a GOLDEN opportunity for an ambitious ; switched on
Category Manager
to join a dynamic Business- I don't say this lightly

** For this role; you must have 2-3 years FMCG market research/ category experience **

My Client has worked hard on cultivating a positive culture and in the last 5 years have are now recognised as an Employer of choice **

1. The people in the Business- you will get exposure to all areas of the Business; you will work in an open plan office- there is a real vibrant atmosphere- and they employ genuine hardworking people who want to take ownership and a collaborative approach is key.
2. The Hiring Manager- she is fantastic Rachel is calm; composed; switched on – loves to see people who are positive and want to learn- ( I was fortunate to place her in current role and she is highly thought off by the team)
3. Career progression - the last 4 years has seen continued growth for the business- and this role has arose due to one of the Category Managers- ( David) receiving a promotion and moving in to a Commercial role- ( indeed his pathway and PDP was outlined last year - thus highlighting that my client foster career progression)

When speaking to Rachel recently on the ins and outs of the role and what is expected -
Rachel is massive sell to the position- she is a fantastic manager -
she said "
its great to see David receiving a promotion- We have a solid team in place and this role is all about managing the process; analysing data; working through your range reviews- your approach is key - in that you must be able to empathise; build relationships and you must be gently assertive too when liaising with the commercial team but not to the detriment of the relationship or driving business performance. Strong project management skills and attention to detail is a must- on the plus side, as mentioned we have a solid team - everyone is helpful - as a business we are up 5% on this quarter and you/ the person will be joining the business at an exciting time as we have strong growth plans in place."

The Role

The Category Manager will use their category level insight and analysis to create value and develop winning propositions.You will provide clear recommendations to inform all plans and processes in the category team.

You will be responsible for

• Managing the end to end critical path, to deliver range events in line with the merchandising schedule
• Transforming data into meaningful insight to help understand and find solutions to under performance problems & drive growth of the category.
• Actively supporting the category teams understanding of insight and data to make better decisions for the customer
• Linking into relevant agencies, Dunnhumby and the Marketing team with the most up to date data, missions & trends to guide buyers in the development of their range & space
• Assisting in the creation of category strategies, ensuring store formats & affluence form a key part and providing an objective voice of the customer
• Managing and challenging supplier insight and conclusions through your own category knowledge
• Communicating with UK Range & Commercial teams to ensure ROI range and display reflects Irish market requirements
• Working closely with the Brand & NPD teams on any new product development opportunities.
• Leading cross functional teams to deliver projects affecting range and space
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need

• Minimum 2 years Category Management experience which must include either insight or planogram experience
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills- are key- ability to influence and build relationships is key.
• Knowledge of Market Data - and experience working on research tools like Dunnhumby etc
• Highly inquisitive with passion for the customer

For more information please contact Denis Mac Sweeney on or email Denis at . All applications will be treated confidentially.