Category Assistant (6 month contract)

Travis Perkins are currently looking for a Category Assistant to work within the Commercial department. The main responsibility of this role is to support our Category Manager in the delivery of Category Strategy targets and objectives.

What you’ll do

You will provide administration and organisational support to the category management team setting up and maintaining suppliers/products on the computer system including pricing, compiling performance data, reports and assisting with day to day queries. It is an exciting role touching all areas of our commercial operation and offers the opportunity for development towards progressing into category management.

This diverse role will give the successful candidate the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills including; product management, negotiation and stakeholder management.

Is this you

As a Category Assistant you will need to be flexible with your working environment and have experience working in a professional environment, with the communication skills required to interpret customer needs.

You will possess a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, ability to communicate on all levels, internally and externally, and have excellent written, numerical and verbal skills. You will be passionate and proactive in supporting the team to reach its full potential, whilst motivated to progress  your own personal development.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll also receive £Competitive pay + Benefits (which includes a half yearly colleague bonus, contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance, sharesave scheme, group wide colleague discounts across the Travis Perkins Group (Toolstation).  Plus we have a number of online discounts at leading retailers from airport parking to theme parks to eating out and cinemas.  Our working hours also offer a great work life balance - most of our customers choose to enjoy their weekends and bank holidays which means you can too!

You may not know much about Travis Perkins, but if you look a bit closer you might be surprised, despite our size, we have the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition of a forward thinking Company.  We pride ourselves on being a great place to work that's why we have been voted one of the UK’s Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our 20+ leading businesses.  We operate out of more than 2,000 outlets nationwide and have over 28,000 colleagues.