Salary:
Competitive salary + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Category Manager – Wolseley Group – Plumb Centre
So, who are we? We are the Wolseley Group - a leading specialist trade merchant across the UK and Ireland. We pride ourselves in putting our people and customers at the heart of everything we do – and best of all, provide opportunities to develop skills and build careers through our award-winning Wolseley Talent Guild.
Also, did we mention? In addition to the competitive salary, there are also benefits on tap – including:
* Annual leave (increasing with length of service), a generous pension scheme (matched up to 9%), the potential to earn bonuses, enhanced maternity/adoption leave, and access to a great range of online and high street discounts.
* We also promote positive health and wellbeing by offering free access to healthcare, our popular YuLife app, our Cycle to Work scheme and more!
As a Category Manager based in our Warwick office, you’ll be responsible for:
* Driving the strategy on a range of products, responsible for all category supplier terms negotiations and managing your own categories.
* Identifying products that may form part of multiple customer strategies and ensuring that an appropriate plan is in place to maximise inventory and stock performance; the range change process; provisions and the clearance of end-of-life stock.
* Analysing data to understand trends and identify opportunities, awareness and analysis of main competitors and market landscape.
* Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, having a strategic and proactive approach to managing the supply base, whilst understanding the customers' needs.
This is a full-time, permanent role working Monday-Friday 40 hours a week, with hybrid working, flex to work remotely 2 days a week.
And here’s what we’d like you to have:
* Category Management experience is essential, ideally within a Merchant or Pipe and Values background.
* Able to influence and build relationships with key stakeholders at a range of different levels.
* Experience of developing, planning and executing a Category strategy.
* Analytical skills to interpret complex information about market changes and competitor activity.
* Confident in negotiating supplier terms.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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