Assistant Category Manager

**Role** - Assistant Category Manager

**Location** - Leeds LS15 8GB

**Salary** - £28,000 - £35,000 per annum

**About Us**

Pharmacy2U is the UK's first and largest online pharmacy, we're a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 20 years’ experience, helping over 700,000 patients in England manage their NHS repeat prescriptions from request through to delivery.

**Role**

To support the delivery of the Chemist Direct strategy, exceeding budgeted sales, profit and marketing income targets in the Lifestyle Category and Pharmacy2U.

**Responsibilities**
- Assist SCM in selecting, pricing and positioning of category products.
- Support the Lifestyle categories product content, pricing and promotional lifecycle ensuring the product detail, pricing, systems, images, supplier promotional submissions to agreed policies, standards and timelines.
- Support the SCM in managing, nurturing and developing supplier relationships
- Work with Marketing and Content teams to ensure online content is accurate and optimised.
- Assist SCM in working with suppliers and Supply Chain to maximise Inbound (supplier) & Outbound (customer availability) to agreed targets including stock holding targets.
- Supporting the Senior Category Manager and Head of Category as required.
- Ensuring that the workplace remains fun, relaxed and friendly.

**Skills**
- Demonstrably Customer Focussed and willingness to learn
- Highly analytical and numerate with the ability to convert analysis and identify business benefits
- Microsoft Office proficient - Ability to use Excel at intermediate level (Vlookups, Pivots, calculations, sort and filter etc)
- Commercially astute with a keen eye for product with impeccable attention to detail
- Self-starter and able to demonstrate drive, initiative and proactivity
- Ability to prioritise and organise tasks and workload
- Ability to work with others as part of a team with strong communication skills (verbal and written) and effectively manage stakeholders
- Ability to influence others effectively, managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Hands on Problem Solver - demonstrating flexibility and tenacity - “thinking on your feet”
- Awareness of Buying / Category Management / E Commerce operations desirable but not essential
- Experience of working in a highly complex, dynamic and pressured environment, delivering targets to tight deadlines
- Appreciation of working within company with ethical rules and regulations
- Experience of managing highly complex dynamic FMCG supply chain
- Experience of e-commerce desirable but not essential
- Experience in Influencing / Negotiating desirable
- Experience of creating, developing and maintaining relationships

**What we will offer you**
- Occupational sick pay
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Contributory pension
- Discounted insurance (Aviva)
- Employee discount site
- Employee assistance programme
- Online health and wellbeing resource
- In house mental health support
- Health and wellbeing initiatives
- Discounted gym membership
- Registration fees paid (GPhC, NMC, CIPD etc)
- 25% Discount on staff health and beauty purchases
- Park life membership (exclusive offers and discounts for the Springs, Leeds)
- Free onsite parking and refreshments
- Electric vehicle charging points
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- 25 days annual leave increasing with service plus bank holidays or 28 days annual leave
- Flexible/Hybrid working
- Commitment to CPD (training fees paid)
- Refer a friend bonus
- Blue Light Card

Key Words: Assistant Category Manager, Brand Manager, Marketing Analyst, Product Manager, Sales Analyst, Time Management, Organisational Skills, product knowledge, problem solving

**Applicants must be able to prove they have the Right to Work in the UK**

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