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Luton, Bedfordshire, GBSalary:
£50000 - £55000 per annumDescription
Category Manager / Senior Buyer (Packaging)
Luton
Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Permanent
£50-55,000; plus CAR & excellent benefits
Do you have previous category management experience, within a fast paced environment ?
Are you an experienced negotiator with a strong track record?
Would you like to join an expanding business who have major customers in the retail/ecommerce sector?
If so, this challenging Category Manager role could be an ideal venture for you.
Reporting and working closely with the Commercial Director, you will manage the category with a Buyer and Purchasing Administrator.
Key Responsibilities for the Category Manager are:
- Work closely with the sales teams to identify customer's purchasing patterns
- To monitor, analyse, improve and develop the assigned category to improve sales, market share, margin and profit through a category review
- Understand market & customer trends and ensure that product procurement reflects these trends
- Be able to conduct professional presentations giving the category view
- Ensure customer enquiries & tenders receive timely responses
- To attend supplier meetings as appropriate, exhibitions and review competitor activity
- To provide recommendations on changes to the category including product introductions, discontinuations and continuous improvement
- To provide insight on sales performance for internal meetings highlighting recommendations
- To manage a team as necessary to deliver required business objective
Skills and Experience Required from the Category Managerinclude:
- Previous experience of Category Management in a fast paced commercial business
- Ideally CIPS qualified or equivalent
- Experience of low cost country sourcing & imports preferred
- A self-starter with an enquiring mind
- Commercially astute and highly analytical
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Strong Excel skills ideally
If you have the relevant experience our client is looking for in an Category Manager we would like to hear from you. Please note, due to the high volumes of applications we receive daily, should you not be contacted within 72 hours, your application is unsuccessful. Thank you.
Impact Recruitment is an employment agency working on behalf of our client.
