Category Manager

TAKKT Group • Full-time • Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom • 1d ago

Office Furniture Online is a leading provider of Office Furniture Solutions and equipment, dedicated to helping customers optimize their space and improve efficiency. We have built a trusted reputation for quality products and exceptional service, serving over 250,000 satisfied customers across the UK.

Our portfolio of products returns over £45m in sales per annum and we’re recruiting a Category Manager to join our small team during a period of transformational change and sustained growth. Are you a confident communicator, comfortable managing multi million pound budgets? Are you a highly skilled Category Manager / Buyer, proficient in range development, pricing, performance and product quality? Comfortable negotiating prices with strong supplier management skills? Do you have drop ship experience? Can you multi-task with the ability to work with numerous different products? Are you a strong people manager with previous leadership experience? Then we want to hear from you. We have an excellent salary on offer, with potential to earn company bonus, salary sacrifice pension plus 23 days holiday and your birthday off!

Main responsibilities:

Use customer insight to build effective ranges for your designated category
Create a range and product offer that is distinctive against our competition, and suitable for our customers
Identify product gaps in Category and new category opportunities
Source new and alternative products, considering all aspects including packaging, damages, freight considerations, supplier stability, exchange rate exposure
Constantly monitor category pricing against our competitors and proactively propose any changes to maintain our market position.
Manage effective relationships with existing suppliers, including regular mutual performance reviews
With established suppliers, implement rebates and discuss marketing promotions, for example contributions to special offer flyers or reduced buy prices for promotion periods
Manage contracts and trading terms with suppliers
Conduct monthly and quarterly reviews of category performance

What we’re looking for in you:

Category Management/Buying experience is required with a preference for experience within the Office Furniture product Categories.
Ideally, you will have led or coached less-experienced team members (assistants)
Drop ship experience is required
Strong attention to detail
Strong negotiation skills
Experience of working within a product/ecommerce/furniture business is an advantage

What we can offer you:

We want you to love working here, so as well as an amazing role with the opportunity to grow with the business, we are offering flexible/hybrid working, a highly competitive salary, with the potential to earn a great bonus plus a 4.5 % contributory (salary sacrifice) pension scheme and 23 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays and your Birthday). You can organise your working hours individually and flexibly, and we also offer up to four weeks of workation. Death in service of 4 x your salary. Shopping discounts through Perkbox. Free eye tests for VDU users. Access to private GP 24/7 and Employee Assistance Programme.

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