Category Manager
TAKKT
- Paisley
- Contract
- Full-time
- Use customer insight to build effective ranges for your designated category
- Create a range and product offer that is distinctive against our competition, and suitable for our customers
- Identify product gaps in Category and new category opportunities
- Proactively monitor agreed key competitors for pricing, promotional activity and range gaps/opportunities
- Source new and alternative products, considering all aspects including packaging, damages, freight considerations, supplier stability, exchange rate exposure
- Constantly monitor category pricing against our competitors and proactively propose any changes to maintain our market position.
- Manage effective relationships with existing suppliers, including regular mutual performance reviews
- With established suppliers, implement rebates and discuss marketing promotions, for example contributions to special offer flyers or reduced buy prices for promotion periods
- Manage contracts and trading terms with suppliers
- Conduct monthly and quarterly reviews of category performance
- People management experience is essential
- Product Management/Buying experience is required with a preference for experience within the Office Furniture product Categories.
- Ideally, you will have experience in Office Furniture Categories
- Ideally, you will have led or coached less-experienced team members (assistants)
- Drop ship experience is required
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong negotiation skills
- Experience of working within a product/ecommerce/furniture business is an advantage