This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Assistant Category Manager to play a key role in delivering meaningful, actionable insights to leading retailers and suppliers across Australia and New Zealand.

Sitting within a collaborative team, this role goes beyond reporting. You’ll partner closely with clients to understand their commercial challenges, translate unique data into compelling stories, and help shape strategies that drive category performance.

This is a hybrid role, with offices based in Sydney. You will spend most of your week onsite, working with Australia’s strongest FMCG brands and retailers.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day delivery and relationship management for a portfolio of key clients
• Partner with clients to understand business objectives and shape tailored data solutions
• Translate data and standard reports into compelling narratives and growth opportunities
• Identify opportunities to enhance reporting, analysis and client value
• Work with a variety of brands to uncover customer pain points in real time

About You
You’re a confident client partner who enjoys working at the intersection of data, storytelling and commercial decision-making. You’re comfortable engaging with category managers and thrive in environments where collaboration, quality and continuous improvement matter.

You bring a strong insights background, ideally gained within FMCG, retail, category management or agency settings, and are looking to fast-track your career, working with innovative global solutions.

You’ll have:

• 2-3 years’ experience in insights, research, category or marketing roles
• Proven ability to manage and grow stakeholder relationships
• Analytical skills with the ability to turn data into actionable insights
• Confident communication skills
• Strong project management and stakeholder coordination skills
• Advanced MS Office skills and a high attention to detail
• Degree-qualified in business, marketing, psychology or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements to suit your lifestyle
• Your own tailored and funded education budget and/or additional annual leave
• Training and development opportunities with industry leaders
• A supportive, collaborative culture. No lone-wolf mentality
• A trusted solution proven to succeed in all market conditions

Please note that you must have permanent residency/citizenship for Australia to be considered for this role.

We look forward to hearing from you.