Director Category Development

You will translate deep market insight and shopper understanding into a compelling growth roadmap, working closely with Marketing, Sales, and other key stakeholders. You build best-in-class customer partnerships, inspire internal teams, and ensure our commercial organization is equipped to win.

If you’re ready to create impact, lead change, and shape the future direction of a category loved by millions, this is your opportunity.

Your Impact

1. Lead the Category Strategy for EMEA

• Define and communicate a clear, long-term vision and strategic plan for our categories.

• Identify growth spaces and align category strategy with channel and business priorities.

• Drive transformation of our category development capabilities across markets.

2. Deliver Category & Market Excellence

• Ensure best-in-class category planning and execution across all markets.

• Challenge teams with data-driven insights to strengthen innovation, renovation, and portfolio plans.

• Elevate availability, visibility, and activation across channels.

3. Build Strong Customer & Stakeholder Partnerships

• Represent Lamb Weston at senior customer meetings and industry forums.

• Influence channel strategies and commercial decision-making at executive level.

• Develop customer-specific category plans in collaboration with Sales and Trade Marketing.

4. Inspire & Develop a High-Performing Team

• Lead, coach, and grow a talented Category Development team.

• Embed a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

• Live and promote Lamb Weston’s values to foster a thriving, high-performing environment.

About You

You are a strategic thinker, a natural leader, and a passionate storyteller with the ability to translate insights into compelling action. You thrive in dynamic environments and love building new capabilities from the ground up.

What You Bring

• 10+ years’ experience in FMCG (preferably food), across Sales, Marketing, or Category Management.

• Strong analytical, influencing, and communication skills.

• Experience working with retailers and strong understanding of retail dynamics.

• University degree.

• Collaborative mindset combined with a drive for results.

• Ambition and openness to future international career opportunities (Marketing or Sales).

• Ability to shape long-term retail and category strategy for the business.

Why Join Us?

• A unique opportunity to build and lead a new strategic function.

• High autonomy and visibility at senior leadership level.

• A broad EMEA scope with strong impact on the direction of our business.

• A culture where people thrive, grow, and shape their careers.

Become the driving force behind the future of our categories.