Category Manager

We have a fantastic opportunity for an innovative Category Manager to join our Purchasing team within our Home & Living division 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 & Living this role will take ownership of a 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
- 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 Footwear will be highly regarded. Experience with Furniture, Manchester 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.
- 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

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