Category Manager, Large Appliances

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Category Manager to enhance brand performance on their platform. The role involves building selection, driving demand generation, and ensuring catalogue quality. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in retail and business management, alongside excellent analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with Excel.
• 5+ years in retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.

Responsibilities

• Identify selection gaps and track brand’s offline catalogue.
• Collaborate to create a marketing calendar aligned with vendor objectives.
• Ensure continuous product availability.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Negotiation

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, or marketing

Tools

Excel

Job description

About the Role:

As a Category Manager, you will focus on delivering 5 core focus areas for the brand: Selection, demand generation, catalogue quality, business advice, and availability.

The person who joins the leadership team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers. This ideal candidate should have experience in forging and building brand relationships. Some understanding of planning product cycles and selling online is preferred. The right candidate will be flexible, action- and results-oriented, self-starting, and have strong analytical skills. He or she must have a proven track record in taking ownership, driving results, and moving with speed to implement ideas in a fast-paced environment. He should be entrepreneurial with the confidence to make independent, data-driven decisions. The candidate must demonstrate the ability to succeed at planning, forecasting, and driving an online business. The candidate must be an effective communicator working with Amazon’s key partners and vendors, as well as internal teams.

Key job responsibilities:
This person will be responsible for:

• Building selection: Identify selection gaps and track the brand’s offline catalogue to ensure all relevant selection is present on Amazon.
• Demand generation: Collaborate with the category management team to create a marketing calendar aligned with vendor objectives.
• Business Advice: Support brand participation in Amazon programs.
• Availability: Ensure continuous product availability.
• Catalogue Quality on Amazon: Ensure the brand provides high-quality input, including images and product descriptions, for optimal customer interface on Amazon detail pages.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience with Excel
• 5+ years in retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and results delivery
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
• Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, or marketing

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience managing large data sets to drive performance and process improvements
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing, promotion, inventory management, and product development

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