Lead Product Category Manager - Electricity and Lighting in Peterborough

Location: Peterborough City Centre

Reporting to: Chief Product Officer

Contract Hours: 37.5 hrs (9:00am – 5:30pm)

Holidays: 25 Days per annum

Other Benefits:

• Discretionary annual bonus
• Contribution to gym membership
• Salary exchange pension
• Discount on the purchase of Company products

The Company: Buster + Punch is a London-born interior fashion design label working with rare, solid materials to make extraordinary items for everyday use. From lighting and hardware to custom motorcycles and whisky bars, the brand now makes unexpected and elegant interior products. Its work is inspired by London’s fashion, music and sub-culture where it collaborates with street artists, bike builders, musicians and fashion designers to inject attitude into their crafted products. Buster + Punch is passionate about their people and pride themselves on having built a dedicated and talented team across their business.

The Role: The Lead Category Manager – Electricity & Lighting is responsible for end-to-end category ownership across product strategy, development, pricing, lifecycle management, and commercial performance. This role ensures B2B and B2C growth by building a competitive, compliant, and profitable assortment aligned to customer needs and brand positioning. The role is both strategic and tactical in nature, with a heavy reliance on knowledge and analytical skills. The Lead Product Category Manager partners closely with Product Development, Product Delivery, Sourcing, Compliance, Supply Chain, Customer Service and Sales teams to drive category success globally.

Responsibilities:

• Category Strategy & Planning: Define and execute the global category strategy for Electricity & Lighting, aligned to commercial and brand objectives. Identify growth opportunities, margin improvement initiatives, and customer-driven insights to shape range roadmaps. Conduct competitive benchmarking, market analysis, and trend scanning to ensure category relevance and leadership. Proficient in presenting and bringing simplicity to complex or technical subjects.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Own the product lifecycle from concept to launch to end-of-life, collaborating with all Product team functions, including Sourcing, Compliance, Product Development, Quality, Supply Chain. Shape a rolling 24-month roadmap covering new product development, enhancements, and rationalisation. Ensure all products launch to pre-agreed schedules. Maintain (and improve) accurate data records and product specific data in support of price lists, brochures, customer facing technical specifications and web listings remain correct. Implement pricing strategy, margin targets, and costing frameworks. Monitor category performance (sales, profitability, returns, warranty claims) and course correct proactively. Partner with Supply Chain to ensure stock, forecasts, inventory, and demand planning align with category priorities, and that discontinuation / phase in – phase out programmes are fulfilled successfully.
• Cross Functional Leadership: Collaborate with Marketing & E-comm to drive launch campaigns, packaging, assets, and channel messaging. Support Sales teams with training, selling materials, customer range reviews, and strategic retailer conversations. Work with Compliance and Quality to ensure robust testing, certification, and documentation for all SKUs. Escalate and support any Strategic project launch as priority.

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in category management, product management, or merchandising—must have strong lighting and electrical knowledge, and a passion for the sector.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing margin, pricing, and category P&L.
• Proven ability to interpret customer insights, market data, and performance metrics to inform decisions.
• Experience with PIM, Netsuite and Smartsheet advantageous, or equivalent system experience.
• Comfortable working with cross regional teams (UK/EU/US/Asia).
• Knowledge of lighting and electrical compliance standards highly desirable (CE, UKCA, UL, etc.).
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and project leadership skills.

Education and Qualifications: Degree preferred but not essential. GCSE Maths and English required.

References: The successful applicant will be asked to supply 2 references to support their application.