Retail Category Manager

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	17 Chwefror 2026
Cyflog:	£60,000 i £70,000 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Competitive Salary
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	17 Mawrth 2026
Lleoliad:	Various
Cwmni:	dnata catering UK
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	DCUK199845

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Who are we?

Dnata is one of the world’s largest air and travel services providers. We provide a comprehensive range of inflight catering, onboard retail, supply chain and logistics services at all major and regional airports across the UK.Dnata Catering provide expertly crafted inflight catering services, delivering fresh and high-quality meals at major and regional airports across the UK.As the leading Halal caterer in the UK, we also provide tailored experiences to meet each customer’s unique needs.We’re a leader in VIP catering, offering bespoke inflight to private and charter clients.

The Role

The dnata global retail business is rapidly expanding, building off successful operations in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Australia. As the business expands into new market territories with new clients, the need has arisen to recruit a Retail Category Management & Merchandising lead to support this expansion to provide a range of services aligned to business readiness to provide a turnkey approach for category management and merchandising to meet client needs long term. The role is designed to ensure for each new business implementation, we have clear leadership for the entire category strategy across the full range of products right through to the actual acquisition of goods within those categories. In addition, the role will ensure that the business will be using ready-made processes, templates and applications upon deployment in a new territory or for a new start-up business without having to invest the time and resources required to develop their own from scratch. The role will also play a pivotal role in the development of new products and services pertinent to the retail business proposition.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Sourcing, Ranging and Procurement of applicable product ranges for new business implementations
• Develop clear category and range strategies appropriate for the territory and market for the new businesses being implemented
• Margin optimisation in the sourcing process – optimising price and investments to drive the best trading value for the launch assortments
• Develop trading and supply chain forecasts and intake plans - developing appropriate opening stock levels, ordering new products, and managing warehousing requirements to avoid shortages or overstocking upon transition and launch
• Create merchandising plans to align stock loading levels on the aircraft to onboard service routines and trading forecasts
• Prepare all master data for range initiation to be input in the applicable retail or ERP systems
• Assessments of existing Ranging, Category Management and Merchandising processes with identification of gaps and actionable improvement points
• Create a core set of “white label” processes, templates and applications applicable to Retail Sourcing, Category Management and Merchandising
• Supporting the global Sales team with new business implementations – providing guidance for prospective product offerings and start-up processes
• Developing turnkey merchandising and bar design processes, that align with the new business start-up IT solution
• Support the recruitment of local teams for new start-up airline customers – using the turnkey approach to embed processes and templates into the new teams’ ways of working
• Engage the suppliers into the strategies and white-label approach and align them culturally to the objectives being driven

Required Skills

• Evidence of previous retail buying & category management - a minimum of 5 years
• Experience of working within an aligned buying and merchandising environment
• Strong leadership and management skills- Good interpersonal, communication, presentational and teamwork
• Able to work under pressure – plan, organise and delegate
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• High level analytical and numerical skills
• Enthusiastic, self-motived, proactive and persuasive

What'sin it for you?

• An opportunity to be part of the Emirates global family.

• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner on site

• Free tea and coffee

• Simply health Plan

• Refer a Friend Scheme

• Discounted gym membership at over 2000 gyms nationwide

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Opportunity to enhance your learning through our inhouse apprenticeship programme

If you're invited to interview, please let us know if there are any adjustments we can make to ensure you're cleared for take-off and able to perform at your best. We’re committed to making the recruitment journey as smooth and inclusive as possible.