Job Description

Category Executive
Job title: Category Executive
Reports to: Category Controller
Location: Ornua Foods UK, Leek
Salary: Generous salary available depending on experience
Hours: 36.25 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Benefits: Matched pension scheme up to 8%, Generous holiday allowance increasing with length of service, Subsidised staff canteen, Company shop offering discounts on Ornua products, Sports & Social Club, Staff Lottery, Discount on Bikes & Tech Scheme, Confidential Employee Assist Programme, Free onsite parking
Ornua (meaning "new gold") is Ireland's largest exporter of Irish dairy products, proudly bringing the unique taste of Irish dairy to the world for over 55 years.
Are you a motivated and engaging category professional looking for the challenge of taking a mission driven organisation to its next level of success?
Are you analytical with a love for numbers, data and trends? Ornua is actively seeking a Category Executive to join our Category team as we continue our growth trajectory.
The Category Executive will play a key role in supporting the management of market and customer data/insight into our partner customers, brands and internal teams.
The role involves analysing data, monitoring trends and assisting the category team to build compelling stories to support product listings, portfolio decisions and customer decisions.
Why Ornua?

• Ornua operates from 10 business units worldwide, including 16 production facilities, and has sales and marketing teams working in-market across all four corners of the globe.
• The Group is structured across two divisions: Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients.
• Ornua Foods is responsible for the marketing and sales of Ornua's consumer brands including Kerrygold, Pilgrims Choice.
• Our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business as a purpose and values-led organisation, creating value for Irish dairy farming families.
• Our Values lie at the core of everything we do. Our five values encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care, and Achieve Great Things Together.
• Dynamic Working policy in place which facilitates flexible hours and hybrid working
• We invest in our people and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Career Progression including Global Mobility opportunities.
• Comprehensive Benefits with regional specific offerings.

Why This Role Is Valuable:
As our Category Executive you will be responsible for leading on;

• Support Category Controller / Category Manager in the day-to-day management of customer relationships and requests across multiple channels and formats.
• Ownership of key market and category reports for team and customer.
• Analyse Category performance and identify Category led opportunities.
• Support category manager in completion of range reviews across Cheese & Butter Categories.
• Lead and present regular insights to both external and internal stakeholders.
• Complete value-add reports and adhoc requests for internal & external stakeholders.
• Utilise databases and manage the day-to-day relationship for one of our loyalty card data agencies.
• Own all recommendations on Butter/Cheese to support the growth for customer and brands.
• Collaborate and drive internal cross-functional relationships with teams such as commercial and brand.

What You Bring To The Role:

• Advanced use PowerPoint and Excel
• Use of Kantar, Circana or Nielsen
• Use of loyalty card data
• The ability to demonstrate the articulation of data concepts to a non-expert audience would be an advantage

Our interview process is designed to be thorough yet supportive. This process includes a first stage via Teams to allow us to get to know you better and to understand your skills and experiences and, if successful, a second stage face-to-face interview that will build upon the first stage and give you the opportunity to get a feel for Ornua and the environment in which you will be working.
Ornua has ambitious growth plans and we're building a team to help enable and accelerate that growth. We are looking for people who share our values, are curious, forward-looking, take ownership and work together to build a future for themselves and Ornua.
Would you like to make an impact?
To learn more, please visit Ornua at
Ornua values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. We also strongly encourage women and other underrepresented groups in the manufacturing industry to apply. Your unique perspectives and experiences are highly valued and will be instrumental in driving our company's continued success. Join us in shaping a more innovative, inclusive, and sustainable future.

Skills Required