Category Gaming Director

2 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Currys Full time
**Job Description:**

We are seeking an experienced Category Gaming Director to join our team at Currys. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of our gaming category strategy, ensuring a balanced delivery of KPIs across colleague and customer satisfaction, and financial metrics.

The ideal candidate will have extensive buying experience working within a FMCG/Fashion or Hard Goods fast-paced retailer, with a strong interest in gaming or experience of the gaming market. They will also possess advanced negotiation skills, excellent numerical and analytical skills, and management/leadership experience of senior buyers and teams.

This is a challenging role that requires driving change, recruiting advocates from across the business to support new initiatives/improvements, and presenting to senior stakeholders. The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary of £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits such as 25 days of annual leave, private medical insurance, life assurance, and fantastic colleague discounts on Tech with Currys and iD Mobile.

**Responsibilities:
  • Leads and owns development of the category strategy, in accordance with company defined guiderails for customer promises and financial deliverables.
  • Fully owns the performance of the squad, anticipating risk and opportunity, decisively resolving issues and setting a framework to enable self-sufficiency and high levels of accountability within each of the roles.
  • Drives a mentality of growth within the squad, seeking opportunities to exceed KPIs and gain further competitive advantage.


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