Commercial Category Manager - Appliances, Sinks & Taps
You will create and deliver a clear category strategy for the Appliances, Sinks & Taps sector, ensuring our proposition meets market needs while empowering our branch colleagues to serve customers brilliantly. You'll play a key role in driving our Group Commercial Strategy, managing supplier performance, and ensuring strong trading outcomes.
Location: Location isn’t important but you will need to travel to our Head Office based in Duston, Northamptonshire.
Key Responsibilities:
Define and implement product category strategies, covering ranging, brand proposition, supplier selection, pricing, and route to market, ensuring alignment with Group objectives
Establish strong working relationships across the business with Regional Directors, Operations Managers, and Branch Managers to influence commercial success.
Ensure supplier relationships deliver optimal net costs through effective collaboration and relationship management.
Act as a key commercial stakeholder, liaising with internal teams such as Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Sustainability.
Support the TP HSE team to maintain high standards across the supply chain, ensuring supplier compliance with Health & Safety standards.
Drive innovation by introducing new products aligned with market needs.
What you’ll need to have:
Significant experience within the Applicances market
Proven experience in commercial category management and delivering commercial strategies.
Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to set clear goals and support development.
Excellent supplier management and relationship-building skills.
Advanced negotiation and analytical skills with strong commercial acumen.
The ability to influence at a senior level and work cross-functionally to deliver complex projects.
A customer-focused mindset, with flexibility and resilience in adapting to change.
What’s in it for you?
Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.
You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group.
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
A bit about us
As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.
With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!
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