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Assistant Category Manager
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The Company:
We are looking for a highly organised, commercially focused Assistant Category Manager to support the delivery and development of a successful product category. Working closely with the wider buying, merchandising, design and supply teams, you will play a key role in range building, product development, pricing, critical path management and trade activity.
Supporting the Category Manager to deliver a pipeline of new products for customer selection.
Maintaining required administration accurately and completely.
Responsibilities
- Support the Category Manager and Buying team with range building
- Manage and maintain Range Plans, ensuring product, pricing, supplier and critical path information is accurate and up to date.
- Manage development range plans, tracking multiple price points, product developments and key milestones.
- Coordinate development samples, ensuring samples are received, reviewed and managed through to final sign-off.
- Conduct regular competitive shopping and benchmarking (comp shops) to understand competitor pricing, product offers and market activity.
- Complete frequent price benchmarks and contribute to discussions around pricing structures and recommended price actions.
- Monitor and support pricing actions across key/high-cover lines, identifying opportunities and risks.
- Track and maintain multiple prices across UK and FOB lines, ensuring pricing information remains accurate.
- Support weekly trade activity
- Coordinate actions such as price drops, rebuys and end-of-line activity.
- Maintain accurate and timely updates across systems and range planning tools.
- Manage and monitor the critical path across product development and production.
- Track lead times and proactively identify risks to shipment dates.
- Work closely with UK and FOB
- Brief Designers and other relevant teams on product and packaging requirements.
- Follow up on samples, approvals, production milestones and shipping requirements.
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Key Skills
- Experience within buying, merchandising, category management, product development or a related retail environment.
- Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of pricing, competitor activity and customer expectations.
- Excellent organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple ranges and deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong attention to detail and confidence working with large amounts of product, pricing and supplier data.
- Experience managing critical paths, product development and supplier timelines.
- Confident communicating with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment.
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