Category Manager

Job description / Role

• Providing your client with customer focused insights regarding the product and category.
• Creating and developing a long term plan and strategy for development of the category.
• Overseeing a team of analysts and other support staff.
• Driving category relationships with the large retailers.
• Becoming a leader in category ranging, pricing and promotions across customer channels.
• Leading category management projects to optimise ranges and related merchandising.
• Working alongside customer and national accounts teams to translate customer insights into strategies which drive performance.
• Managing a large portfolio of different retails brands and developing appropriate strategies for each.
• Developing strong working relationships with buying, marketing and merchandising teams is essential.

Requirements

• You will have previous experience as a category manager ideally for a similar organisation.
• The ability to analyse and accurate conclusions to support category decisions based on key data is essential.
• A thorough understanding of retail insights is essential.
• Strong people management skills and the ability to manage and persuade at all levels of the company is essential.
• Previous experience and knowledge of a retail environment.
• Being good with numbers is essential.

About the Company

We recruit the very best talent for middle management positions across a range of functions and sectors. Think you've heard all that before? Read on.

We're here to make recruitment better. Better for our clients, our candidates and our own recruitment professionals.

We build relationships, not databases, and add real value that helps organisations and individuals grow. We are a team of functional and sector specialists delivering a genuinely consultative service that is underpinned by the depth of both our market knowledge and the client & candidate networks we have built.

Our clients love it. And as a result, we are one of the fastest-growing professional recruitment groups on the planet. Whether you're hiring or changing jobs yourself, you can't afford to get it wrong.

Argyll Scott will ensure you get it right.