Category Manager in Milton Keynes

The Role: As the Commercial Heating Category Manager, you'll join an established Category function. The Category Manager will play a key role in supporting the business in all things category. As a Category Manager, you will handle negotiation, procurement, and pricing of all products within your designated Category.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy
• Delivering maximum sales and profitability by building a clear strategic plan
• Develop and build category plan, to deliver market share growth informed by internal and external insight to maximise commercial position and provide the best customer proposition
• Managing SKU level cost and retail price in line with pricing and promotional strategy
• Building strong partnerships with suppliers to maximise business opportunities
• Roll out a clear sourcing strategy to ensure the supply of quality products that meet the customer needs through the most efficient route to market
• Develop direct reports to ensure full engagement and individual growth of teams
• Clearly communicating Category plans to a wider network of teams within the department

This is a hybrid-based role with travel into our head office based in Crick, Northamptonshire, three times a week.

You: You'll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with a commercial and strategic vision when it comes to Category Management. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider team and you'll be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and competencies:

• Experienced in category management or buying/procurement
• Experience working with suppliers in the commercial heating category
• Developing and executing a category strategy - buying, sourcing, negotiating, pricing, etc
• Motivated to achieve deadlines/targets
• Excellent attention-to-detail, planning, and organisational skills
• Excellent analytical and communication skills (written and verbal) at all levels
• Experience of leading a team

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Category Manager, Assistant Category Manager, Procurement Assistant, Procurement Manager, Buying Assistant, Buying Manager, Building, Construction, Trade, Manufacturing, Retail, FMCG or Supermarkets.

Us: From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We're proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we're super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self

We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don't want you to 'fit' our culture, we want you to enrich it.