About The Role
At GSF Car Parts, our Category Programme team plays a crucial part in developing our product offering across multiple sales channels. As a Support Product Manager, you will ensure that the category and business objectives are achieved for this area, reporting to 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
We offer a hybrid office and home working environment, with the opportunity for personal growth and development within a national organisation.
Main Duties
* Develop and define brand strategies within each category, considering market size, suppliers, competition, market share, growth and trends to increase sales, profit and market share.
* Manage the life cycle of your categories, ensuring the stocking profile programme meets business needs and liaising with supply chain and procurement to optimise stock holding.
* Review lost sales and conversion data to support the 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 position category pricing correctly for the market while maximising sales opportunity.
* Support the catalogue team to ensure market‑leading cataloguing information is available.
* Support e‑commerce channel growth, driving online sales and marketing initiatives.
* Assist marketing and business needs by implementing compelling category and promotional campaigns to drive growth.
* Collaborate with the procurement team to identify the best sources for products and brands within the categories, achieving group objectives in terms of sales and margin.
* Support 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.
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