Junior Category Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Somerset
- Salary
- £35000 - £45000 per annum
- Closing date
- 31 Jan 2022
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Buying
Job Details
Working with an energetic trading and category team that is key to developing the customer offer, through sourcing and interpreting customer and market insight, identifying strategic opportunities, understanding the Trading Strategy, and ultimately facilitating the development of Category Plans with the Category team.
Client Details
My client are a major retailer with 700 stores and a great presence online for the homewares and home improvement sector. Doubled in size over the lockdown across their trade and retail clients, keen to continue this growth into other international countries.
Description
Key responsibilities of the Junior Category Manager are:
- Working with Category Teams and Customer Insight team, as well as many other stakeholders around the business
- Drive the category plans and review process for your specific categories, partnering with the relevant Category & Trading manager to design and deliver a category plan that is aligned to the business strategy and right for our customers
- Interpret and manipulate data from multiple sources and systems (e.g. financial, transactional, store and customer) to build a complete view of performance and potential opportunities.
- Execute detailed analysis to inform, develop and value all elements of a robust category plan, including range and price, promotional mechanics, all channel strategy, and translate this into recommendations to present to key stakeholders.
- Support cross-category analysis and initiatives, developing frameworks and tools that help to deliver a consistent and data-led approach to category management
Profile
The successful Junior Category Manager will be:
- Customer-centric in their approach to planning
- Had experience in a previous role analyzing data and drawing key insights.
- Able to articulate plans, ideas and concepts to multiple stakeholders
- Strategic thinker
Job Offer
On offer to the Junior Category Manager is:
- Great experience working with the head of commercial planning
- Ability to bring new ideas to the table and implement them without lots of red tape and waiting times
- Staff discount
- Office in Somerset
- Flexible WFH and office split
- Working for a Retail business that is growing
Company
Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.
Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!
Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us
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