Electronics Category Manager - London, United Kingdom - IT Talent Solutions Ltd

IT Talent Solutions Ltd
IT Talent Solutions Ltd
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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Electronics Category Manager
- £450 per day (inside IR35)

  • 1 year contract
  • Flexible/remote/hybrid working


This exciting opening will define the
category strategy of a well-known global
Ecommerceplatform's
electronics category and execute this through working with
strategically important sellers, brands and retailers in the trading team to ensure the inventory to continue to grow this area plus being accountable for the operational and commercial success of the overall seller portfolio and the widercategory.


Responsibilities:


Build category and
market expertise to identify and exploit opportunities and build inventory plans,

Develop
expert understanding of sellers' business operations and current strategies and utilise insight to find opportunities for growth


Lead and develop the relationship with key sellers, brands and retailers within the portfolio and in line with the category strategy

Develop approaches to
influence the broad based on SMB and consumer sellers in your category to increase the quality and breadth of our inventory

Build range and promotional plans, to target merchandise and use levers to get products and promotions on site


Collaborate with other categories and product teams to drive further engagement and build an added value proposition for the consumer


Interpret seller customer needs and behaviours & use them to get the best/most relevant offer to the buyer


Calculate; manage and monitor performance against agreed KPI's, Trade planning - feed seller plans and priorities in to plans and vice versa, particularly at key retail moments such as Black Friday

Deal profiling - liaise with inventory team to surface seller's strongest deals at the best times


Inventory acquisition - work with outlet arm of sellers to maximise off-price inventory availability


Reporting:

- weekly updates on seller performance by category and progress on initiatives and trade planning


Seller Reporting - share key insights from reporting tools with seller to improve performance and drive engagement from wider seller business


Requirements:


We would love to hear from you if you have a
strong ecommerce or
online platform background as an
e-commerce, commercial or business development manager with strong commercial acumen, comfortable operating in a fast-paced online environment.


Standout negotiation skills and the ability to
build internal and external relationships is key, crafting partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives, operating with agility and easilyadapting to change.


A proven strategic thinker and self-starter, you can make sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to optimally solve problems and drive commercial results through business development and acquisition.

A strong ability to analysedata and draw actionable insights from these is key plus being comfortable to engage at the most senior levels within brands and retailers.

This role offers fantastic career development for an individual with excellent organisational, communication and problem-solving skills.
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