Job Description
The Company:
An exciting opportunity for a Category Assistant – Hybrid to join a fast-moving team, excellent training and development. You will be responsible for preparing and analysing commercial data and market trends. Setting up critical paths with factories for selected products ensuring the required shipment dates are met.
Supporting the Category Manager to deliver a pipeline of new products for customer selection.
maintaining required administration accurately and completely.
Benefits:
Hybrid working - 3 days in the office a week.
Responsibilities
* Understand what the competition are selling / pricing structures / marketing for given product areas.
* Spot and development new products sales opportunities.
* Create development diaries and track and push internally and externally with the factories any developments.
* Samples management required for customer meetings.
* Costing for new factory designs
* Cross costing current designs
* Updating current and new prices on price lists
* Setting up critical paths with factories for selected products ensuring we can meet the required shipment dates to meet launch.
* Creating and sending out internally packaging forms and photography forms
* Responsible for weekly Intake sheets being updated and sent to our customer giving overview of approvals and what is outstanding.
* Escalating and tracking any products at risk and agreeing an action plan.
* Work with the Technical team to highlight any potential issues. Track these through development to resolve.
* Communicate across various departments to ensure we are hitting key dates on critical path.
* Creating and sending out internally packaging forms and photography forms
* Ensuring all our live lines costing sheets is correct and up to date and corresponds with their online system. Each Season adding new and removing discontinued lines ready for the following seasons negotiations.
* Updating development documents
* Creating initial PowerPoints to send out to internally/ customers.
* Liaise with Merchandising / Stock Control for on time vs delayed deliveries and updating customer information accordingly.
* Liaise with Technical on new products, new factories, and quality issues.
* General admin support where and when needed based on workflow.
* General housekeeping duties for Data/sample storage/showroom & updating Bars (our system that holds record and imagery off all current/selected and offered lines to the customer)
Key Skills
* Advanced excel skills required and ability to work with mass data.
* Ability to communicate with Customers and Suppliers on Teams calls and face to face meetings.
* Ability and the confidence to produce and present Power points internally and externally.
* Attention to detail is critical as dealing with large amounts of data.