Commercial Category Manager

Are you a strategic and commercially-minded category professional with a passion for Kitchens? 

Reporting to the Category Director, this Commercial Category Manager opportunity is a brand new role within our Benchmarx Kitchens commercial team. You will influence stakeholders, shape market-leading strategies and drive business performance within a trusted organisation. 

You will create and deliver a clear category strategy for the Kitchen 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:

• Deliver on key commercial priorities while fostering skills growth and personal development

• 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.

You’ll also have:

• Preferably experience within the Kitchen market, but not essential.

• Proven experience in commercial category management and delivering commercial strategies.

• Excellent supplier management and relationship building skills.

• Advanced negotiation and analytical skills with strong commercial acumen.

• The ability to influence 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?
You’ll join a supportive and driven team, empowered to shape the direction of our specialist businesses’ marketing strategy. Travis Perkins Group offers industry-leading development and progression opportunities, alongside a great range of benefits:

• Competitive performance related bonus

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

• Contributory pension scheme

• Life Insurance

• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including with special discounts across our Trade Merchants - 20% off at Toolstation

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, 17,000 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!

You be you, it makes us,us!