Category Specialist

Category Specialist

About Breville

Over the past 90+ years Breville has grown to become an iconic global brand, delivering kitchen products to over 70 countries around the globe. Breville enhances people’s lives through the delivery of brilliant innovation and thoughtful design based on deep consumer insights, empowering people to do things more impressively or easily than they’d thought possible in their own home and ultimately allowing them to “Master Every Moment”.

A career at Breville is truly a one-of-a-kind experience. It’s more than working for a global leader; it’s an opportunity to be a part of something that impacts people all over the world.

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 

We're Interested in Hearing from People Who Have: 

• 3+ years' experience in product management, category management, commercial, or marketing within a cross-functional consumer products environment 
• Tertiary qualification in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Design, or a related field 
• Experience contributing to product development from concept through to launch 
• Comfort working with pricing, contribution margin, and forecasting data 
• Exposure to market or consumer research, briefing, participating, or interpreting findings 
• Comfort engaging with a range of stakeholders, and building experience to manage more complex or higher-stakes relationships with support from your manager 
• Experience balancing competing requirements or priorities across multiple stakeholders or organisations 
• Comfortable representing the business professionally in interactions outside the immediate team, with a proactive approach to keeping relationships on track 
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritise workloads 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• A growth mindset, open to feedback and keen to build product judgement over time 
  

Breville is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We encourage our employees to be themselves, respect the need for work-life balance, and career progression. 

What we offer you:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Competitive compensation package
• A fun and rewarding team environment
• Opportunity to work for an Australian Stock Exchange listed company
• Employee assistance program
• Paid parental leave policy
• Employee discounts of up to 40% on all our electrical products
• Corporate health and wellness benefits

To Apply

Come and make your mark with this global leader by applying today via the Apply Now button. 

Please note Breville Group will never ask applicants through email, phone, text message, or direct message on social media to provide identity documents, personal details, or financial information such as bank details.

Breville Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.