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.
A passion for all things Homeware / Textiles and excellent organisational skills would be beneficial, including knowledge of critical path management. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with commercial experience looking to develope their career
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.
* Samples management required for customer meetings.
* Costing for new factory designs
* 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
* 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.
* 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.
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.