Category Specialist

About the role
Reporting into the Senior Global Category Manager, this role will support category strategy and product development within Global Product. As the Category Specialist, you will assist in shaping category roadmaps and product requirements, evaluating product and market performance, providing a consumer lens across projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and preparing presentations for key business communications. This is an opportunity to join a high-performing global product team, working alongside experienced product, designers, engineers, and research specialists to help shape the next generation of products.

This role carries a higher degree of stakeholder management than is typical for the position. You'll work closely with a key development partner, requiring confidence in managing relationships, expectations, and communication.

This role is based in Sydney, Australia.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own the day to day coordination of a co-development product portfolio with an international partner, including regular meetings across time zones, escalating anything complex or sensitive to the Senior Global Category Manager
• Support category strategy, analysing performance, contribution margin, and market share across your category
• Contribute insights and recommendations to category roadmaps and product strategy discussions
• Work alongside Product Development Managers and engineers to shape Product Requirements and business case inputs
• Provide direct support to the Senior Global Category Manager across a growing product range
• Balance and deliver against two sets of development requirements, from Breville and our development partner, flagging any conflicts or tension to the Senior Global Category Manager to collaboratively resolve
• Brief and collaborate with the Research team on qualitative and quantitative consumer studies
• Develop early pricing, volume, and forecasting inputs, and align with regional teams on assumptions
• Prepare and deliver presentations for product reviews, Stage Gate, and Go-To-Market briefings
• Support product launches with product knowledge, training input, and GTM collaboration
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across a diverse stakeholder group, including parties with differing priorities, working styles, or ways of operating
• Act as the day-to-day point of contact for stakeholders beyond your immediate team, managing routine communication and follow-through, supported by the Senior Global Category Manager for anything higher-stakes or complex
• Continuous identification of opportunities to improve processes