Category Manager, RS Pro

Category Manager, RS Pro

Location :

Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF Sesto San Giovanni, MI, IT, 20099 Riga, LV, LV-1013 Manchester, ENG, GB, M2 3AA Frankfurt, Hesse, DE, 60327 GB

Brand : RS Group

Work Location : Hybrid

Category Manager

Available Locations (Hybrid) : UK (London, Corby, Manchester), Germany (Frankfurt), Italy (Milan), Latvia (Riga)

The RS Pro team have an opening for a Category Manager!

The Category Manager develops and executes the Own Brand strategy for their aligned product technologies through product knowledge, sourcing, negotiation, bringing the goods to market, reporting and end of life range decisions.

You’ll be working in close collaboration with the RS PRO team in Compliance, Quality, Ethical Sourcing and Sustainability, the global sourcing team, the local regional stakeholders and the data team – ensuring to deliver profitable growth, accelerated customer acquisition and superior ROI.

With a mandate covering RS the role operates internationally across EMEA and APAC regions as well as globally in conjunction with strategic supplier relationships.

What you will be doing :

• Delivering the RS PRO NPI Road Map, strategies and business plans
• Conducting supplier range reviews and engagement to maximise growth
• Ensuring the product range is fully aligned to customer needs
• Delivering product range growth by supplier and product segment
• Effective use of Data insights to maximise customer penetration
• Deliver KPIs for managed suppliers and technologies :

Revenue

What we are looking for from you, in order to be successful in this role :

We are RS Group :

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years : big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

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