Category Lead

5 days ago

Cremorne, Australia Reece Group Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Category Lead - Irrigation, Pools, Pumps & Water Treatment

About Reece

You probably know Reece as Australia's largest supplier of plumbing and bathroom products.

But we are much more than that. We are a leading Australian distributor of trade products to residential, commercial and infrastructure customers. We're an ASX listed company with more than 800+ branches and 9,000 employees across Australia, New Zealand and the United States and we're growing all the time. We're searching for an experienced Category Lead to join us on our journey to be the trades most valued partner.

About the Role

As Category Lead you'll drive an industry leading product portfolio that gives us a distinct competitive advantage. You'll be managing stakeholder relationships across our supply chain, which includes our domestic and international suppliers.

  • Ensuring that the category portfolios are customer led and provide a distinct competitive advantage; undertaking regular range views for optimisation and new product opportunities
  • Manage supplier relationships and performance, negotiating commercial terms
  • Drive product innovation and development; managing products from concept to launch, collaborating with key stakeholders to bring things to life
  • Developing industry relationships that ensure exposure to ongoing innovation and disruption
  • Providing reporting and insights on category portfolios (using Excel and Power BI); analysing results to provide updates on trends and other impacts
  • Develop procurement plans that enable the efficient supply of products
  • Having the customer at the heart of everything you do, helping us build customers for life at Reece

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

  • Demonstrated experience in a similar category management role, we will also consider related experience in retail, procurement, supply chain and marketing
  • Ideally you will also have had some experience working in B2B environment (trade/distribution customers)
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills with a passion for mentoring and sharing your knowledge and expertise, and an ability to present and engage audiences
  • A positive, can-do attitude and an inquisitive nature, with a thirst to understand the Reece business and products
  • Strong relationship building skills, you'll be working with a number of stakeholders within the business and external vendors and suppliers
  • Good Excel and Power BI skills

Reece offers a competitive salary, structured career progression opportunities, hybrid and flexible work arrangements, discounts on our products, EAP services and more.

Reece is a place where people make a real difference. And that's the secret to our success; having the right people, with the right attitude in the right roles. This means that we value diversity and fairness and are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or life stage.

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