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Commercial Category Manager

  1. Permanent - Full time
Competitive + Benefits
  1. Travis Perkins
  2. Northampton, Northamptonshire

hrs/pw

Full Time

Northampton

51750

Do you relish the challenge of driving sustainable profitable sales and putting customers and branches at the heart of everything you do?


If you have the drive and the ambition; we've got the role for you!


Location: Hybrid role, 1 day a week working at our head office in Northampton



What you’ll do 

 

As Commercial Category Manager for Kitchen Cabinets, Storage & Lighting, you will be responsible for developing and delivering a clear category strategy that meets market demand while enabling our branches to deliver an outstanding customer experience.

You will manage a profitable and efficient category portfolio aligned with the BMX strategy and tailored to the needs of key customer segments including Tradespeople, Housebuilders, the Contract Market and Homeowners. Working cross-functionally with Buying, Technical, Marketing and other key stakeholders, you will drive new product development, optimise the product range and deliver strong commercial performance across the category.

You will also play an important role in supporting the delivery of the Group Commercial Strategy, managing supplier performance and ensuring the category delivers sustainable growth in both sales and profit.


Is this you

 

Taking accountability and ownership for all aspects of the category you ideally will have previous experience of successfully delivering in a rounded category management role driving sales, trading profit (including rebates and TAs), margin rate, return on stock and product availability.  

 

You will be highly numerate, with an ability to utilise research and insight to understand both customers and the market.  In turn, you will be able to evidence category/account growth through critical analysis and opportunity development which incorporates innovation and legislative changes.

 

Building effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders is pivotal to this role, and you will be able to demonstrate successful influencing, collaboration and negotiation skills.

 

As a curious and natural problem solver you will be able to demonstrate your drive, enthusiasm and continuous improvement outlook in order to maximise our commercial success.

 

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you 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:

  • Competitive performance related bonus

  • Save-as-you-earn scheme

  • Buy-as-you-earn scheme

  • Contributory pension scheme

  • Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including; 20% off at Toolstation plus special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses.

  • Hybrid working pattern

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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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