Category Manager

4 weeks ago

Garden City, Victoria, Australia Kogan Full time

We have a fantastic opportunity for an innovative Category Manager to join our Purchasing team within our Home & Appliances division, overseeing our Home Furniture category Looking after a diverse product range, we're looking for a commercial Category Manager to continue curating the offering, ensuring our customers have the most in-demand and trending products in the market.

Reporting to the Head of Home & Appliances this role will take ownership of our Home Furniture category portfolio, partnering with suppliers and keeping on top of market trends to provide our customers high quality, best priced products.

If you're an ambitious, driven Assistant Buyer / Junior Category Manager and are looking to step up and challenge yourself, or have a couple of years as a Category Manager / Buyer and are familiar with category ownership and optimisation, but looking to challenge themselves with different category and product experience; this is a brilliant opportunity to utilise your Buying expertise within a leading, ASX listed eCommerce business, and turn your passion for product into an exceptional offering for our customer

In this role you'll be responsible for:
  • Identifying commercial opportunities for category expansion including sourcing and developing new products within Home Furniture
  • Engaging and sourcing key suppliers in World's best brand and Kogan.com's Exclusive Brands
  • Managing and engaging with key stakeholders, internally and externally, to build effective working relationships and achieve outcomes
  • Ensuring the most efficient logistics, warehousing and shipping options are chosen for each product
  • Maximising profitability of all products, through a depth of understanding of your category and the market
  • Being proactive, innovative and striving to continually develop your category for our customers
  • Actively negotiating the best possible trading terms and prices
  • Drive and control price changes across our different sales channels, and contribute towards pricing reviews when required
  • Ensuring timely import of products and stock management, ensuring fulfilment of customer demand
  • Actively managing and monitoring inventory levels to achieve company goals and KPIs, including planning promotional activity and actively reacting to market conditions
  • Ensuring revenue and profit targets are exceeded every month
  • Monitoring performance and completing range reviews across your category and recommending actions where necessary
  • Partnering with Marketing to ensure product listings are well merchandised and discoverable to support the customer journey
To be successful in this role, you should be:
  • University Degree qualified in a relevant field (Commerce, Business or similar)
  • Experienced as a Category Manager, preferably within an eCommerce, Retail or FMCG environment. Experience with Furniture, Homewares or other Home & Living categories will be highly regarded
  • Comfortable building and maintaining effective relationships, through exceptional communication and engagement
  • Highly analytical and possess commercial nous, being able to recognise opportunity and make quick decisions for the best commercial outcomes, so that we can offer market-leading pricing to our customers
  • Comfortable working within a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Being agile and adaptable is key to success
  • A whiz with Microsoft Excel (we're talking VLOOKUP and pivot tables, not SUM and AVERAGE - and we will test your capabilities)
  • Tech savvy and able to use various IT and cloud-based tools to improve efficiency and productivity.
  • Ready to challenge, be challenged, and work within our highly disruptive business model.
Why Kogan.com?
  • Work with an incredible team to solve important challenges, helping to drive Australia and New Zealand's eCommerce future
  • Your role has a lot of ownership, autonomy and little red tape. You'll be empowered to achieve positive outcomes and your work will have a real impact
  • You'll be at the forefront of the eCommerce industry with us and be part of a company that are the Pioneers of eCommerce in Australia
  • Be an Intrepreneur, playing a hands on role in shaping our strategy at our HQ
  • A range of employee benefits such as; complimentary Kogan First Membership, team exclusive discounts, Health & Wellness program, Learning & Development and Lunch & Learns, Hackathons, Team member referral program, Company and team events and celebrations, community engagement (volunteering) and extensive career development opportunities plus loads more

To apply

Express your interest in this opportunity by uploading your CV and Cover Letter, outlining your interest in the position and how you think you can help grow the Kogan business. Hot tip, generic Cover Letters won't cut it here Stand out with an application that shows a deep knowledge of the Kogan.com business and how we operate, to allow yours to be looked upon more favourably.

Innovative thinking got our business to where it is now, so it makes sense that we look for like-minded problem solvers As a first step to our process, all new candidates will be sent testing, so be sure to keep an eye out for it

About Us

We're Kogan.com, Pioneers of eCommerce in Australia.

At Kogan.com we offer rewarding careers, where you build your skills, are mentored by the best in the industry and get to share your expert knowledge in an innovative Company where your ideas and opinions count. You get to solve really important challenges to drive eCommerce's future, and get to do it with a great team culture and benefits

Join Kogan.com to master your craft, do your best work, make a real difference and work with the best. At Kogan.com, your work will have an immediate impact on transforming the Australian and New Zealand retail environment.

Heads up

Kogan.com is a fast-paced business - our vacancy close dates are subject to change. We will assess applications as they are received, so don't wait to apply

All new Kogan.com team members are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.

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