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Job Description:
Toolstation, part of the Travis Perkins Group, is seeking a Category Manager for Landscaping. The role supports the Landscaping category with a focus on Trade customers, driving convenience, service, range, availability and value across seasonal and project-led landscaping needs. Responsibilities include strategic market reviews, range planning, supplier selection, route-to-market decisions, cost of goods calculations, and supplier performance management. The role is hybrid based within commutable distance of Northampton.
Job Responsibility:
- Propose, define, and implement product category strategies
- Accountable for developing and executing specific category plans
- Deliver the category budget for sales and margin
- Accountable for delivering a product range that offers the optimum balance of quality and value
- Execute brilliant commercial projects across the business by collaborating with internal stakeholders
- Manage, lead and coach a Category Assistant.
Requirements:
- Proven experience managing a landscaping category within a fast-paced, omni-channel retailer
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
- Confident in ability to analyse and interpret information from a variety of sources
- Commercial retail experience ideally in Trade and DIY or other fast paced retail sectors
- Strong analytical capability
- Commercial acumen
- Supplier management
- Range development
- Ability to deliver projects through cross-functional teams
- Strong negotiation skills
- Leadership and persuasive interpersonal skills
- Ability to learn quickly
- Understands customer requirements and can quickly build knowledge of products and competitors.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary
- Bonus
- Car Allowance
- Contributory pension
- BAYE and SAYE schemes
- Life assurance
- Discounts off Travis Perkins businesses and a range of other affiliate partners.