Category Assistant

**About The Role**:
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**Interested in Pricing and Buying Analysis? Excellent at Administration?**

**Category Assistant**

**Skelmersdale (WN8 9RD)**

**Salary: £21,000**

**Great hours Monday to Friday, full time, no evening or weekend working**

A career in Category Management awaits you. If you’re interested in Account Management, Buying or Category Management this is an excellent opportunity to learn in a diverse and interesting role that covers a wide variety of essential tasks. Here are some quick questions to help you:

- Do you have great administrative and analytical skills?
- Are you interested or experienced in pricing, buying, supplier management or a similar role?
- Do you want a career rather than a job?
- Do you drive and have your own transport to get to our Skelmersdale offices?
- Are you looking for a rewarding job in an established company where your work is valued?

If so, let us recognise how important you are and support you in a career you will enjoy. This is your chance to shine at the UKs leading hygiene services company - let us tell you why you will love it here

Firstly, you will be supporting 3 key business areas - Products, Compliance and Contractual Services, assisting our supplier teams with the management and input of essential data to allow Direct365 to make key decisions and provide a seamless customer journey. We want to support you and help you develop in your career here, enhancing skills you have and learning new ones. It’s a vibrant, fun place to work, with a real family feeling, one of many reasons we think you will love it here. The hours are great too - you’ll be working Monday to Friday (guaranteed full-time hours), with free parking that will save you a fortune, as well as further benefits.

**Your role as **Category Assistant** at Direct365 will include**:

- Collating competitor data on our main products and services, spotting key trends, and analysing pricing to ensure we stay competitive in the marketplace.
- Maintain online pricing based off competitor shopping, manage online stock availability, and action pricing changes.
- Launching new products to our website, uploading imagery, copy, and merchandising on our web pages.
- Managing our Compliance category - you’ll work with the supplier base to ensue all SLAs are achieved and KPIs are met.
- Running weekly meetings with suppliers to update on the status of work and highlighting any issues to the category teams.
- Assisting with analysis on contractual suppliers, ensuring the best services and prices to our customer base.
- Working on data improvement projects across the business.
- A genuine interest in a career in Category Management
- The ambition to drive their career and our company forward
- A high attention to detail, with the ability to spot trends
- Excellent communication skills as you will be speaking regularly in meetings with suppliers and stakeholders
- Great computer and administrative skills, with working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Excel
- A ‘can-do’ attitude, someone who really cares and takes pride in their work

**In return for your commitment and expertise as a Category Assistant, you’ll benefit from**:

- A salary of £21,000 in a permanent full-time position
- No weekend or evening working - great hours Monday to Friday (37.5 hours a week)
- Amazing employee discounts with major supermarkets and retailers with ‘phs Perks’
- Training to expand your skills. We offer accredited ILM training through external and in-house training, and apprenticeship opportunities
- 23 days holiday plus bank holidays (31 days in total) plus a Buy / Sell holiday scheme
- Free Parking onsite so no parking costs
- Community day off to work for a local community or charity
- Other benefits such as improved parental and paternity leave, a 24-hour wellbeing helpline, cycle to work scheme, pension scheme, life assurance and more

**About us**

At **Direct365**, our vision is to be the UK’s number one provider of essential workplace products and services for small businesses. We value helpfulness, reliability and innovation within our employee base, and believe in giving everyone the freedom to do what they do best. Our aim is to combine our buying power with friendly expert advice for everyone’s peace of mind that the job’s well done.

Direct365 is part of the phs Group, the UKs leading Hygiene Services provider.** phs Group** was founded in 1963 and we are the leading provider for Hygiene Services in the UK, Spain and Ireland with over 120,000 customers across 300,000 locations incorporating numerous businesses during its 60 years of business.
- At phs, we pride ourselves on our diverse workforce, and ensuring we have an inclusive environment for all our staff. We remain committed to ensuring our teams can bring their true selves to work without risk or fear of discrimination._