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Category Specialist

3 weeks ago

StokeonTrent, United Kingdom National Veterinary Services Limited Full time

Category Specialist

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Full-time 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday

**Salary**: c. £30,000 per annum

Have you a flair for product and keen to work with suppliers to bring new ideas to market?

Do you enjoy working with customers to ensure that their needs are understood and adapting strategy where required to ensure we can continue to meet those needs?

Like working as part of a dynamic friendly category team?

If you can answer yes to the above, we have an exciting role waiting for you

This is a full-time opportunity for you to join our category team as a Category Specialist. We are looking for someone with strong buying skills and a flair for category management, understanding customer needs and working with manufacturers and suppliers to help fulfil these.

We are the UK’s market leading veterinary wholesaler, committed to delivering a positive difference to animal health through high quality products and services This is a full-time opportunity for you to join our Buying team and an opportunity to work for the UK’s leading veterinary wholesaler.

**What you will be doing**
- To work as part of the NVS Category Specialist team to ensure delivery of the P&Ls for the category business plan
- Maintain a good working knowledge of the veterinary and adjacent markets
- Develop strong relationships with key customers to ensure that their needs are understood, identifying and prioritising the best opportunities and adapting strategy where needed to ensure we can continue to meet those needs
- Develop & maintain strategic partnerships with key manufacturers and suppliers to deliver the category plan providing innovation & differentiation for our customers within the appropriate markets
- Establish and maintain sound working relationships with KOL utilising their knowledge and expertise within research, communications and training as appropriate
- Working closely with the Marketing Team, ensure that all marketing activity is planned and briefed to deadlines
- In conjunction with the Marketing Team, ensure that customer facing teams are fully briefed on all relevant products, plans and activity as appropriate
- Establish and maintain sound working relationships with suppliers to achieve the best possible commercial agreements and develop new supplier relationships as appropriate to deliver product differentiation within the appropriate markets
- Provide monthly reports analysing performance against targets and KPI’s. Work alongside relevant parts of the business to ensure targets are met and help take corrective action where they may fall behind
- Attend relevant trade shows where necessary to identify new product and sourcing opportunities
- Ensure the Material Planners are briefed as appropriate to maintain optimum levels of stock in order to meet the customer’s needs through planning, forecasting and placing orders but within the financial objectives of the company
- Share information and knowledge within the business to drive new opportunities collaboratively
- Any ad hoc duties as required by the Category Manager to aid in the running of the department

**Working for us**
- Competitive rate of pay
- 31 days paid holiday (including bank holidays)
- Enhanced Company pension scheme
- Minimum 10% Staff discounts
- life assurance benefit
- Free on-site parking and Wi-Fi
- A 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme - offering a range of support services to help you to resolve difficulties in your home-life
- Savings related Share option plan
- Christmas hamper for every colleague
- Eye-sight vouchers

**Who we are looking for**
- A good knowledge of Category Management
- Previous Category Management experience in a relevant role
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Excellent communicator (written & verbal)
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Highly customer focussed
- Capable of working in a team environment, collaborating with others to meet customers needs whilst achieving targets
- Computer literate (Excel, Power Point, Word)
- Excellent analytical skills
- Commercially minded relationship builder
- Highly motivated, results oriented individual
- Ability to travel in UK and oversees - hold full UK Driving License

Due to the nature of our business and handling of pharmaceuticals, the successful applicant will be required to disclose any unspent criminal convictions to the Company. A DBS check will be carried out in compliance with Home Office guidelines. Applicants should be aware that with in line with our Drugs and Alcohol policy random tests are carried out.

NVSL is committed to equality of opportunity and this underpins our employment and recruitment procedures. We use objective, job-related criteria when making appointment decisions and our selection criteria is based on skills, experience, qualifications and an ability to do the job.

**Salary**: £30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
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