Dole Packaged Foods is a purpose led Nutrition and Wellness organization that “champions a more equitable world.” We believe that nutrition and wellness should be available and accessible to all.
Dole Packaged Foods delivers this purpose in Europe through a network of different (B2B) customers, ranging from Retail to Food Service to distributors which deliver our products to our consumers.

Want to join our new team? We are now looking for a Category & Insight Manager Europe to join our commercial team!

We are looking for a data-driven, commercially minded  Category & Insights Manager to join our team for a 12-month maternity cover. This role sits at the intersection of insight, commercial strategy, and customer collaboration — bringing together numbers, trends, and storytelling to drive growth in the European fruit category.

You’ll be responsible for leading our category vision with top retailers, turning Circana/Nielsen/Kantar data into actionable insights, and influencing promotional and pricing strategy. If you’re naturally curious, love a good pivot table, and get excited about what’s moving in-store — we want to talk.

Primary Accountabilities:

Responsible for leading market performance analysis, generating actionable consumer and retailer insights, developing strategic category plans, supporting promotional and pricing strategies, and collaborating cross-functionally to drive growth and alignment within the European fruit category.

• Lead market performance tracking and shopper insight generation using Circana, Nielsen, Kantar and internal data
• Deliver monthly business reporting and ad hoc analysis to support commercial priorities
• Own the creation of annual business assessments for UK + Europe to feed strategic planning
• Provide market insights and category rationale to guide NPD plans, ensuring new launches align with shopper needs and retailer expectations
• Build inspirational, insight-led selling stories tailored to key retailers
• Present in annual customer category meetings
• Support decisions on range and distribution based on insight and performance data
• Lead promotional analysis and guidelines, tracking effectiveness and ROI
• Monitor competitive pricing and recommend country RSP positioning
• Work closely with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain to align category plans with business and operational realities

Key Success Measures:

• Delivery of clear, insight-led recommendations that directly shape commercial and strategic decisions
• Demonstrated impact of category initiatives on retailer performance: increased visibility, sales, and market share
• Measurable improvement in promotion ROI and pricing effectiveness
• Positive feedback from internal stakeholders and retail partners on thought leadership and business partnering

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• A passion for turning data into action: you thrive on uncovering insights and influencing decisions
• A strategic thinker with strong commercial instincts, able to balance shopper needs, brand goals, and retailer agendas
• Confident communicator and presenter
• Highly organised, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams
• Curious and committed to continuous improvement – always looking for smarter, sharper ways to do things

Experience, Knowledge, & Skills You Bring:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in the position of Category Manager 
• Fluent in English mandatory; other languages (especially Dutch, French, or German) are a plus
• Fluent in Excel (you know your way around VLOOKUPs, INDEX-MATCH, and pivots)
• Confident in using Nielsen, Circana, Kantar, or similar shopper/retail data platforms
• Solid experience in FMCG, ideally working across multiple European markets
• Strong communication and influencing skills, comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and retailers
• Bonus points for knowledge of the UK grocery landscape, especially the top 4

Location:

• Travel required in Europe
• Preferably based in the Netherlands or the UK: work out of a home office in the Netherlands or the UK and from the Rotterdam office

What we offer to you as part of our awesome and diverse team:

• The opportunity to help develop our European organization to new levels and deliver on our purpose, while also building your personal and professional growth and well-being.
• International collaboration in a small, engaged and highly diverse team, with direct colleagues in Netherlands, UK, Germany, France and Belgium.
• A competitive remuneration package depending on the experience you bring, modern pension arrangements & income insurances, 26 days of holiday leave per annum, full reimbursement of public transportation travel cost, et cetera.
• And of course the support and means to be successful in this role, such as laptop, mobile phone, home office equipment, et cetera.

Dole Packaged Foods is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, political orientation, or on the basis of disability.

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