Job Title: Category Lead
Location: Erith, Kent
Department: Category team
Salary: £30,000-£40,000 (DOE)
About the Role
We’re seeking a Category Lead to take ownership of a defined product portfolio and play a pivotal role in shaping its direction within our UK business. This is a high-impact role where you’ll combine market insight, product expertise, and commercial thinking to build and optimise a best-in-class assortment that delivers for customers and drives category growth.
You’ll act as the central point of expertise for your category, partnering across teams to influence strategy, enhance product performance, and ensure our offer remains competitive, relevant, and commercially strong.
If you have a passion for products, enjoy blending strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and thrive in a fast-moving commercial environment where your decisions are visible and valued, this role offers real ownership and opportunity to make a difference.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the product portfolio in line with strategic and commercial objectives, identifying opportunities for growth, innovation, and optimisation
- Shape and influence the category in collaboration with international partners, suppliers, purchasing, and internal stakeholders
- Manage the full product lifecycle, including introductions, changes, rationalisation, and discontinuations, ensuring a clean and commercially optimised assortment
- Develop and maintain deep category expertise, acting as the go-to product specialist and technical reference across the business
- Support sales and marketing teams with product insights, technical knowledge, training materials, and customer-facing information (digital and in-person)
- Drive category growth through proactive input into campaigns, cross-functional initiatives, and promotional activity
- Monitor, analyse, and optimise category performance, including KPIs, stock health, online presentation, and core range effectiveness
- Ensure product data accuracy, compliance alignment, and strong commercial visibility across channels
Skills & Experience
- Understanding of product lifecycle management, technical product characteristics, and real-world application
- Ability to interpret technical specifications, safety documentation, and compliance requirements
- Commercially minded with strong analytical capability to assess market trends, competitor activity, and performance data
- Strong stakeholder management skills across purchasing, marketing, sales, and international teams
- Curious, proactive, and motivated to continuously build product and category expertise
- Confident communicator, able to translate technical detail into clear commercial and customer value
What We Offer
- 23 days holiday (raising up to 28 with Length of Service)
- Pension in line with auto-enrolment
- Health Care plan – money towards your dental, optical and treatment therapies!
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Staff discount on all Wurth products
- Career progression
Apply now and power the growth of our network!
We are committed to fostering inclusion and diversity to support the future success of the Würth Group.
Please note: Interviews may take place while the role is advertised. We reserve the right to close the role early if sufficient applications are received.
