Assistant Category Manager

2 days ago

Bryanston, South Africa lixil africa Full time

To assist with the strategic planning, development, and execution of category management initiatives. This role is responsible predominantly for driving category growth & assisting the broader product management team to achieve departmental objectives.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:
**Category Management**
- Develop and implement category strategies to maximize sales, market share, and profitability.
- Conduct market and competitor analysis to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities. This may entail liaising with customers & the sales team.
- Manage product life cycles including launches, upgrades, and discontinuations.
- Develop annual business plans and promotional calendars for the category.
- Liaise with procurement and supply chain to ensure optimal stock levels. This includes the evaluation of excess stock levels & the running down of this via customer promotions, as well as the evaluation of these activities.
- Initiate required manufacturing change requests & drive process to completion.
- Highlight underperforming categories & initiate & manage plans to improve performance.

**Pricing Management**
- Conduct monthly pricing benchmarks on relevant categories, & ensure amendment of pricing where required.

**Product Packaging Management**
- Development of product packaging with suppliers.

**Technical Support & Product Expertise**
- Ensure product compliance with industry standards and regulations, & drive the certifi cation process where required.
- Develop and deliver product training to sales teams in collaboration with the marketing & technical teams.
- Work closely with R&D and technical teams for product improvement and innovation.

**Miscellaneous**
- Assist product leader with ad hoc tasks as required.

**Requirements**:

- Matric OR Equivalent
- A business degree such as Bachelor of Commerce or Equivalent (Marketing specialisation preferred)
- Minimum of 3 years work experience in Category Management / Marketing / Business Analysis environment
- Exposure to and experience in the practice of Marketing
- Ability to learn new systems quickly, e.g. SAP BO reporting
- Ability to reach out to colleagues at all levels & functions of the business
- Good interpersonal skills with regards to query resolution
- Must be able to use Google offi ce tools, e.g. Google Sheets, Slides etc., & MS Offi ce Suite at an “Experienced level”. i.e. Word, Outlook, Excel (Intermediate) & PowerPoint,
- Exposure to the plumbing, bathroom and kitchen fittings and fixtures industry (Advantageous)

Work Location: In person

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