You manage product categories by developing strategies, tracking performance, and optimizing listings across channels to ensure sales targets are met while effectively managing information.
Anforderungen
- •Qualified knowledge of MS Office
- •Understanding of holistic category management
- •Experience as Category Manager in retail
- •Proficient in handling market data
- •Strong analytical skills and commercial understanding
- •Ability to communicate effectively across functions
- •In-depth experience in assortment strategy
- •Experience with suppliers and negotiations
- •Business-fluent English skills
- •High degree of self-organization under pressure
- •Ability to communicate effectively across functions
- •Ability to build positive relationships
Deine Aufgaben
- •Conduct annual condition negotiations
- •Ensure sales and margin targets for products
- •Develop long-term category strategies with stakeholders
- •Track strategy and follow up on agreements
- •Regularly review and optimize assortment listings
- •Create management forecasts
- •Identify optimization potential and verify insights
- •Manage essential performance information effectively
- •Oversee multichannel KPI management
Deine Vorteile
30 days vacation
Company pension plan
Employee discount
Fitness collaborations
Training and education
Open corporate culture
Mobile work arrangement
Original Beschreibung
## Your Tasks
* Conducting condition negotiations, including annual negotiations
* Ensuring sales and margin targets for the defined River and promotional product portfolio, as well as refinancing marketing activities
* Developing long-term category strategies with all functional stakeholders, taking market conditions into account
* Tracking the strategy in collaboration with other functions (including follow-up on condition agreements, supplier performance, product performance)
* Regular review and optimization of the entire assortment listing using standardized tools (channel-appropriate approach for multichannel / online / marketplace) in coordination with key stakeholders
* Creating forecasts for management purposes
* Identifying optimization potential and verifying conclusions drawn from the comparison of plan vs. actual
* Effective and efficient information management, including the provision of information essential for performance management
* Multichannel (offline/online) responsibility in managing KPIs
## Your Profile
* Qualified knowledge of MS Office
* Understanding of the holistic category management process
* Experience in the role of Category Manager at a comparable retailer/wholesaler
* Proficient in handling market and company data from common sources such as Nielsen or GfK
* Strong analytical skills and understanding of commercial implications
* Ability to communicate effectively with different target groups across functions and departments
* In-depth experience in developing an assortment strategy, defining assortment tactics, and successfully implementing an assortment area – overall responsibility for the “lifecycle” of an assortment segment
* Experience with suppliers as well as price and terms negotiations
* Business-fluent English skills
* High degree of self-organization and ability to work in a goal-oriented manner under time pressure
* Ability to communicate effectively with different target groups across functions and departments
* Ability to build and positively influence relationships at all levels
## Additional Benefits
## Job Infos
Location: Ingolstadt
MediaMarktSaturn Deutschland
Department: HQ - Group Indirect Procurement & Category Management
Entrylevel: Professional Level
Type of Employement: Full Time
Working Hours: 37,5
Persona: Job Requisition HQ Employee
Recruiter: Lea Theresa Ellerich