Head of Category
West Midlands
£70-75k + Car Allowance + Hybrid
Job Reference: GG/1264
Overview
An opportunity to lead a key business area within a market leading distribution business as Head of Category.
Reporting to the UK Commercial Director, you will inspire your team, strive for excellence, and drive continuous improvement.
The Role
The successful Head of Category will:
* Drive and determine the Commercial strategy.
* Lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the product management, strategic procurement, and business development.
* Manage the development and capabilities of category team members.
* Own the category P&L and drive actions to manage and improve it
* Define product assortment
* Define sell-out price strategy
* Gather and provide market intelligence.
* Drive product innovation within existing offering.
* Propose and implement sales initiatives (e.g., campaigns, training, sales enablers, etc).
* Drive category sell-out.
* Support quotes, tenders and special projects.
* Identify opportunities for cross-sell, OEM conversion and value creation.
* Address overall product queries from sales network and customers.
* Continuously review the industry/market trends and developments to ensure that the category strategy is current and driving business growth.
* Keep up to date with category knowledge, products and application.
* Ensure management of suppli...