Category Manager – Tools & Consumables Growth

Rexel France; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car Scheme

33 days annual leave (including bank)

Performance related bonus

Private Medical Insurance

Contributory pension scheme and 4 x 1e

Extensive Learning and Development

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Rexel UK is seeking a commercially minded Category Manager to own the Tools & Consumables category. You’ll shape strategies, manage CGM, and drive profitable growth across pricing, rebates, and supplier partnerships.

You’ll lead category plans, benchmark competitors, and collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain to maximise availability and margin. This permanent, hybrid role is based near Birmingham, offering strong benefits and development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial Category Manager role with end-to-end category management and P&L ownership.
• Strong grip on the commercial levers: margin, rebates, pricing, promotions, range optimisation, supplier negotiation.
• Highly analytical and able to make data-driven trading decisions at pace.
• Confident stakeholder manager—able to influence across Commercial, Sales, Finance and Supply Chain in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver short- and long-term category plans that translate into clear trading actions and measurable results.
• Own Commercial Gross Margin (CGM) and profitability, including managing and maximising rebate income and supplier funding.
• Shape and execute pricing strategy in partnership with the Pricing Analyst to optimise margin, price position and category profitability.
• Lead competitive benchmarking and deliver promotional plans that drive volume without diluting profit.
• Deliver sales and market share growth, using data to continuously refine range, price, promo and supplier mix.
• Develop own-brand growth and direct sourcing proposals by customer and quartile where it strengthens margin and competitiveness.
• Partner with demand planning / supply chain to ensure strong commercial execution: sales-out, clearance and promotional plans, maintaining +95% availability.
• Build high-impact supplier partnerships and negotiate commercially strong agreements (including all contract paperwork and legalities completed on time and to process).

Skills

Category management

P&L ownership

Pricing strategy

Margin management

Supplier negotiations

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Excel

Tools

Excel

Job description

Rexel UK is seeking a commercially minded Category Manager to own the Tools & Consumables category. You’ll shape strategies, manage CGM, and drive profitable growth across pricing, rebates, and supplier partnerships.

You’ll lead category plans, benchmark competitors, and collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain to maximise availability and margin. This permanent, hybrid role is based near Birmingham, offering strong benefits and development opportunities.