Your role as a Category Manager will see you being responsible for creating and managing our range of product assortments instore and online. You will focus on the consumer their needs and how they shop our brands. Working closely with our Head of Marketing our talented sales marketing business analyst and comms teams you will maximise our brand sales instore and online through assortment management engaging POS and stands for our consumers shopping journey.
Key Responsibilities
- Creation & ongoing management of all permanent product assortments
- Creating insights from sales & market data resulting in strategic range decisions including delisted SKU proposals and New SKU introductions
- Develop pricing strategies for assortments considering competitive set whilst maximizing sales and profit aligned to KPIs
- Design and development of all instore permanent stands to optimize the brand instore and support the consumer shopping experience
- Analyse market dynamics trends and track competitor activity
- Work alongside the Sales Team to drive sales according to the retailer specific Trade Marketing Plans.
- Assist and participate at internal and external company events
- To remain abreast of industry trends digital developments and feed in new thinking
- Creation and delivery of marketing materials & content particularly producing effective pointofsale material to drive brand/category/product awareness
Skills and Experience
- You will have experience in a previous category management or buying role ideally within the cosmetics / beauty.
- You will have to enjoy working in a fastpaced environment where hard work determination and resilience are key.
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Great verbal and written skills with the confidence to build strong working relationships with key stakeholders
- You must enjoy working with numbers and be used to a large number of SKUs working with Microsoft Excel as well as PowerPoint.
- Must speak Spanish and English withadditional languages an advantage
Albert Roger Group is a panEuropean Health & Beauty Company bringing a portfolio of innovative and exciting beauty brands to both consumers and retailers across Europe.