Category Manager (CM)

Your task as a Category Manager includes increasing the profitability of our existing products and the development of new assortments for our existing market channels (teleshopping, e-commerce, retail). The execution (To-Go-Market) of the entire assortment is part of your basic responsibility.

To do both you are an active part of a team of category management as well as a major player in a planning team. To develop innovative products and assortments is one of your tasks, to analyse the market on the basis of KPIs and generate innovate solutions completes your duties.

• Assortment planning and managing product ranges over the entire product life cycle.
• Planning and controlling the buying budget of the relevant categories based on company targets.
• Reporting and monitoring categories performance (using standardized KPIs).
• Cooperating with the existing major suppliers and acquiring of new vendors.
• Building up strong partnership and leading price and contract negotiations with suppliers.
• Carrying out market and product mix analyses.
• Developing and implementing of marketing and promotional activities.

• Completion of the study of business management.
• Minimum 4 years of experience within strategic purchasing.
• Strong analytical skills and a high sense for numbers.
• Explicit non-food product/assortment development know how.
• Modern retail or e-commerce experience will be a benefit.
• Good English skills.