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Assistant Category Manager
Job Posted: 8 hours ago
Salary: £ 30,000 - 35,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Kings Langley
Expire in: a month
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Category Manager
SALARY: £30,000- £35,000 plus 10% Bonus
LOCATION: Kings Langley- Hybrid Working 3 days in office a week
Benefits:
6% Pension Contribution
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
25 days holiday increasing to 30 days over 5 years of service
staff discount
BUPA health care is optional.
Are you in a junior buying role for a retailer or category management role at the early stages of your career? Are you looking to expand your experience and work for a manufacturer? Then this could be the role for you! Our client is a multi-award-winning brand in the consumer electronics accessories industry, specializing in mobile, IT peripheral, and wireless technology. With a strong global presence and multiple offices worldwide, they employ thousands of individuals.
About you: Assistant Category Manager
We are looking for a Category Manager/ Product Manager/ Junior Buyer /Merchandiser at the early stages of their career, you may currently be a junior buyer or category management assistant working for a retailer. You’ll be good with Microsoft Excel and will have crossed paths with the marketing team, understanding how the two work together.
The role requires someone who has some good commercial acumen, who enjoys communicating across business functions and collaborating with various teams across the business.
Job Specification: As Assistant Category Manager you’ll be assisting the business units to give market, product, competitor, and consumer insights across the EMEA markets. You’ll do this through the gathering and analysis of data, you’ll support the Product Managers to transform these insights into engaging and informative sales tools. Working cross functionally with sales, marketing and product management you’ll drive efficiency, accuracy and build excellent lines of communication.
In addition, you’ll be responsible for: -
Transforming product value propositions into inspiring product pitches supported with technology trends and channel guidance from the Product Manager so that Sales can confidently secure placements for new products.
Competitor reviews and researching to benchmark products not just in price, but in creative execution and breadth of product portfolio.
Conducting market (GFK/Stackline/NPD/Statista) analysis on a regular cadence and assist in making educated forecasts of technology trends
Managing the lifecycle process for run rate SKUs alongside the Product Managers. Assessing sell through rates and SKU optimisation in partnership with Supply and Demand teams.
Maintaining Product Management master files such as catalogues and presentations, as well as update cross functional tools like (url removed), Workfront and Agile.
If this sounds like you and you’d like the opportunity to work for a world-renowned brand in the consumer tech space, then apply today!
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