About The Role
At GSF Car Parts, our Category Programme team play a crucial part in the development of our product offering across our multiple sales channels. As a Support Product Manager you will be responsible in ensuring that the category and business objectives are achieved for this area reporting into the Programme Manager.
- The programme team covers multiple category areas including:
- Oil and Automotive Fluids (Coolant, Adblue, Screen wash etc)
- Consumables (Additives and workshop dry consumables)
- Accessories and Performance parts
- Electric vehicle specific parts
For the right individual, this role offers a career in a multi-site, national organisation, giving the opportunity for personal growth and development. We pride ourselves in a culture of encouraging our people to work together and develop relationships that help all of us to succeed.
With our aim to be a flexible employer, this role offers hybrid office and home working.
Main Duties
- Develop and define the brand strategies within each of the categories considering the market size, suppliers, competition, market share, growth and trends within the marketplace to increase sales, profit and market share, and ensure that our product offer and buying terms are optimised.
- Effectively manage the life cycle of categories, ensuring that the stocking profiling programme is relevant for the needs of the business, liaising with supply chain and procurement to ensure that category stock holding is effective.
- Review lost sales and conversion data to support development of core product lines and category areas.
- Consolidate the product offer to support improved pricing, availability, or overall commercial offer.
- Work with the pricing team to ensure that the category pricing is positioned correctly for the market while maximising the sales opportunity.
- Support the catalogue team to ensure market leading cataloguing information is available.
- Support Ecommerce Channel Growth, supporting online sales and driving different online marketing initiatives.
- Assist marketing and business needs by implementing compelling category and promotional campaigns to drive growth.
- Work with the Procurement team to identify the best sources for the products and brands within the categories to ensure that group objectives are achieved in terms of sales and margin.
- Support the branches and functional departments with product queries.
About You
The successful candidate will have experience in commercial procurement, and/or marketing, ideally within the automotive aftermarket, or FMCG environment.
What You'll Need To Succeed
- Knowledge of product management
- Experience of developing channel management and running product promotions
- Excellent data management skills
- Experience of Microsoft Office, especially advanced Excel
- Experience of MAM or similar would be advantageous
- Experience of using data to analyse and interpret business requirements
- Strong communication skills
- Influencing, negotiating and persuasive skills
- Ability to act on own initiative
