Category Planning Manager - Beauty & Personal Care

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Category Planning Manager for Beauty & Personal Care. This pivotal role involves leading trade strategies, managing strategic projects, and collaborating on long-term category growth. With a focus on insights and market share, you'll play a crucial part in driving success in a high-profit category. The company values flexibility, offering a blend of office and remote work, ensuring you can thrive both personally and professionally. Join a team that prioritizes diversity and inclusion, and contribute to a mission of serving customers and communities better every day.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme up to 20%

25 days holiday plus personal day

Private medical insurance

26 weeks maternity leave at full pay

Free 24/7 virtual GP service

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in Buying, Category Planning, or Commercial Strategy is essential.
• Strong background in Programme and Project Management with data insight.

Responsibilities

• Lead trade strategy to consistently win market share.
• Manage strategic change projects and collaborate on category strategy.
• Ensure compliance with policies and deliver customer-facing activities.

Skills

Buying

Category Planning

Commercial Strategy

Programme Management

Project Management

Data Insight

Job description

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Category Planning Manager - Beauty & Personal Care

Job Reference tesco/TP/8568366/921936

Number of Positions: 1

Contract Type: Permanent

Location:

Competitive

Closing Date: 05/01/2025

Job Category: Buying

Business Unit: GB Head Office

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We are delighted to share that a new position has arisen for a Category Planning Manager on Beauty & Personal Care.

Beauty and Personal Care is a strategic priority for Tesco. A high profit, long term growth potential category. As Category Planning Manager, you will lead our sell strategy. This includes managing strategic projects, leading trade planning, category insight, store / omnichannel / comms team engagement / retail media engagement.

You will be responsible for

• Leading the trade strategy and plan making sure we consistently win market share.
• Leading strategic change projects, including managing natural work teams, budgeting and reporting.
• Collaborating with team to create a long term category strategy that delivers sustainable customer share / profit growth.
• Collating and curating the best category insight from industry experts to help team to make winning decisions.
• Managing image coverage online and overseeing product data quality (taxonomy, search terms etc.).
• Ensuring team meets Customer / Commercial Policies in line with internal and legal standards.
• Defining the category trade plan to deliver a great offer for our customers in line with feature space principles.
• Delivering customer-facing activity across all channels (range reviews, promotions and events) to critical path.
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all training so that I have zero GSCOP breaches. Follow our Business Code of Conduct and always act with integrity and due diligence.
• Ensuring all supplier agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt.

You will need

• Buying / Category Planning / Commercial Strategy experience
• Programme Management / Project Management with relevant data / insight experience

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.