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Senior Global Category Manager
Emma – The Sleep Company
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Senior Global Category Manager
Portugal
Full Time
2 days ago
No Sponsorship
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Key skills
C
R
Product Management
Collaboration
About this role
Role Overview
Define, own and continuously evolve the global category vision, strategy, and 3-year ambition.
Set the role of the category within Emma's overall portfolio — what it is for, who it serves, how it grows.
Identify long-term growth opportunities across consumer segments, geographies, and channels.
Translate company-level strategy and growth priorities into concrete category-level direction.
Present and align the category strategy with senior stakeholders including C-level.
Design and own the global portfolio architecture including Good / Better / Best tiering logic.
Define SKU roles, lifecycle stages, trade-up paths, and rationalisation priorities.
Build and maintain a global product roadmap covering Y1 to Y3+ horizons.
Run quarterly portfolio reviews: identify winners, slow-movers, gaps, and overlaps.
Drive SKU rationalisation decisions in collaboration with Commercial, Finance and Regions.
Maintain the product catalogue as a single source of truth across the organisation.
Lead product discovery: market gap analysis, consumer Jobs-to-Be-Done, and opportunity sizing.
Define innovation briefs and product concepts with clear consumer and commercial rationale.
Translate strategy into structured product requirements and success criteria for R&D.
Partner with R&D and engineering throughout the design & build phase.
Assess competitor product launches and technology trends to guide the innovation pipeline.
Maintain a 12–18 month innovation pipeline with clear stage-gate milestones.
Define global pricing principles and positioning guardrails for the category.
Act as the global category point of contact for EU, APAC, and LATAM regional teams.
Requirements
7–10 years of experience in Category Management, Product Management, or Portfolio Strategy in consumer goods, e-commerce, or DTC.
Proven track record managing complex multi-SKU consumer product portfolios (mattress, furniture, home, FMCG, or comparable).
Experience leading product innovation from brief to launch in cross-functional environments.
Strong exposure to global or multi-regional operating models.
Strategic thinker who can turn ambiguity into a clear direction — and who can then execute it.
Able to build category vision and roadmaps from scratch, not just maintain existing frameworks.
Strong analytical skills: comfortable with performance data, business cases, and consumer research.
Excellent communicator and influencer — able to align diverse, senior stakeholders across functions.
Hands-on: comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels.
Experience with DTC, online-first, or omnichannel environments is a plus.
Benefits
Pet-friendly environment, where you can bring your furry desk buddy;
Discounts on our top-notch products;
Health insurance including dentist;
24 days holidays/year +1 day/year at Emma (máx. 29 days);
The opportunity to collaborate with multinational teams;
Exciting events that aren't just team-building exercises but opportunities to create epic memories.
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