Category Manager
3 weeks ago
We are seeking a skilled Category Manager to join our team at TAKKT AG. As a Category Manager, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of products, driving sales growth, and developing effective ranges for our designated category.
Main Responsibilities:
- Utilize customer insight to build effective ranges for your designated category
- Create a range and product offer that is distinctive against our competition, and suitable for our customers
- Identify product gaps in Category and new category opportunities
- Proactively monitor agreed key competitors for pricing, promotional activity and range gaps/opportunities
- Source new and alternative products, considering all aspects including packaging, damages, freight considerations, supplier stability, exchange rate exposure
- Constantly monitor category pricing against our competitors and proactively propose any changes to maintain our market position.
- Manage effective relationships with existing suppliers, including regular mutual performance reviews
- With established suppliers, implement rebates and discuss marketing promotions, for example contributions to special offer flyers or reduced buy prices for promotion periods
- Manage contracts and trading terms with suppliers
- Conduct monthly and quarterly reviews of category performance
Requirements:
- People management experience is essential
- Product Management/Buying experience is required with a preference for experience within the Office Furniture product Categories.
- Ideally, you will have experience in Office Furniture Categories
- Ideally, you will have led or coached less-experienced team members (assistants)
- Drop ship experience is required
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong negotiation skills
- Experience of working within a product/ecommerce/furniture business is an advantage
What We Offer:
We want you to love working here, so as well as an amazing role with the opportunity to grow with the business, we are offering flexible/hybrid working, a highly competitive salary, with the potential to earn a great bonus plus a 5% contributory (salary sacrifice) pension scheme and 23 days' holiday (plus bank holidays and your Birthday). You can organize your working hours individually and flexibly, and we also offer up to four weeks of workation. As part of the Haniel Group, you have access to a cross-company network and individual training (training courses, seminars, lectures, etc.). A further training budget is available to you. Death in service of 4 x your salary. Shopping discounts through Salary Extras. Free eye tests for VDU users. Access to private GP 24/7 and Employee Assistance Programme.
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