Category Assistant

As a Category Assistant (Administrator) you will provide administrative support to the Senior Buying Manager and the supporting team for your category. Based from our offices in Hatfield 3 days a week and 2 remotely, you will be responsible for a variety of administrative tasks and with a key focus on accuracy and efficiency to ensure the product range is optimised to support the overall Ocado Retail strategy and goals
**Key Accountabilities**
- Ensure all administrative tasks for allocated suppliers are set up and managed as agreed between the Buyer and Supplier, this includes managing and updating the pricing of products, setting up new suppliers and ensuring product checks are carried out in comparison to competitors.
- Ensure a good understanding of cost and retail price and work with the supplier to set up products
- Work with the Buyer and Supply Chain to ensure all products lines are organised and ranged on the website correctly, this includes daily ranging of new product lines, delisting’s obsolete items, and managing masters assortment (managing buyers MA) substitutes and alternatives in line with company guidelines.
- Check product information are accurate and in line with company guidelines, ensuring product attributes are correct and source new line information from suppliers
- Provide daily and weekly reports to buying team as required and any other bespoke or ad hoc requests from the Buyers
- Set up and maintain all promotional activity within the critical path ensuring you run reports to check start and end dates for live promotions, continuously monitor communications with stakeholders surrounding the legality of promotions
- Understand and support in critical path management tasks for behaviours, submissions and promotions
- Support income and margin funding is raised on the system
- Raise invoices correctly to suppliers
- Support with the delivery of promotional activity
- Assist the call centre in a timely manner with responses for customer queries in conjunction with the Buyer
- Maintenance of supplier database
- Support with cross-functional tasks as required across all buying categories
- Adhere to Ocado Retail values and comply with GSCOP and Competition Law
- Ad Hoc tasks

**Experience**
Strong administrative skills including word and excel
Previous administrative experience in a fast-paced retail or buying environment is desired
**Qualifications**
Minimum GCSE or equivalent
**Competencies**
- Numeracy and Accuracy - Strong attention to detail to handle key commercial and product data (attention to detail is key) Excel
- Communication Skills
- Communicates clearly with suppliers trading partners and Supply Chain
- Problem Solving - Is able to identify solutions to problems
- Team player
- Demonstrates collaborate working and proactively supports colleagues to achieve organisational goals
- Planning and organisation
- Supports with multiple tasks ensuring deadlines are met

**What We Offer You**
At Ocado, we value our employees and want to ensure you are rewarded for your contribution through competitive salaries and fantastic benefits.
- 26 Days Annual Leave
- Private Medical insurance
- Income Protection & Life Assurance
- Enhanced Pension Scheme (with 7% matching)
- 15% Ocado discount and 20% Marks and Spencer discount
- Exciting company benefits through Reward Gateway

**About us**
Our business is a joint venture between Marks & Spencer Group and Ocado Group. It’s a successful combination of **award-winning customer service** and **unrivalled customer data** ; **world-leading technology and logistics** from Ocado Group, and **unrivalled product development** from M&S.
This unique structure enables us to outperform the market, with revenue for the last 12 months of **£2.188bn** - a galloping **35% year-over-year growth**. We’re an exceptional and mighty bunch of colleagues who are inspired by our three awesome values**:Always be curious**, **Bring your best self** and **Challenge what's possible**. We’re growing fast, and we’re looking for like-minded people to join us for the next step of **this incredible journey**.
**Equal Opportunity Employer**
Ocado Retail Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employers are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability or union membership status
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