Plant Equipment Category Manager

City Plumbing; Crick; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading plumbing and heating product retailer in the United Kingdom is seeking a Category Manager to oversee their Plant Equipment category. This hybrid role involves defining the category proposition, managing supplier relationships, and leading a team. The ideal candidate will possess strong commercial acumen, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to thrive under pressure. Benefits include bonuses, discounts, life assurance, and a focus on inclusivity and personal development.

Benefits

Bonus

Discounts and cash back at retailers

Life assurance

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering successful category management in similar or junior roles.
• Strong analytical skills, especially using Excel for sales reporting.
• Experience in managing supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage category proposition for compelling customer offers.
• Own supplier relationships to maximize opportunities.
• Collaborate with departments to align category goals.
• Manage and develop a Category Assistant or Assistant Manager.

Skills

Strong commercial acumen

Analytical skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Team motivation

Job description

Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Category Manager and be part of a hugely successful and friendly Commercial team.

As a Commercial Plant Equipment Category Manager, you'll join an established Category function, playing a key role in supporting the business in all things category. You will handle negotiation, procurement, and pricing of all products within your designated Category.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the category proposition to ensure it delivers a compelling customer offer while achieving sales and profit targets.
• Own category external supplier relationships, including commercial terms, to ensure all opportunities are maximised.
• Manage internal department relationships (including sales, operations, supply, finance, marketing, and digital) to align them with the category proposition and development.
• Collaborate with the Senior Category Manager to define a clear range and pricing hierarchy aimed at a specific customer target market.
• Manage and develop a Category Assistant / Assistant Category Manager, ensuring they are aligned, motivated, and supported in their career aspirations.

This is a hybrid-based role with travel into our head office based in Crick, Northamptonshire, twice a week.

You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with a commercial and strategic vision when it comes to Category Management. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider team and you’ll be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial acumen with proven ability in delivering successful category management in similar or junior roles
• Strong analytical skills and ability on excel / sales reporting
• A team player with strong communication skills
• Evidence of working and delivering under pressure
• Strong analytical and system skills
• Ability to challenge, develop, and motivate team members.
• Operates with integrity and awareness diversity and inclusion
• Experience managing supplier relationships and delivering compelling customer propositions.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Category Manager, Assistant Category Manager, Procurement Assistant, Procurement Manager, Buying Assistant, Buying Manager, Building, Construction, Trade, Manufacturing, Retail, FMCG or Supermarkets

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.