• North Shore
• Exciting opportunity
• Bring your positive attitude & eagerness to learn

The Company
The opportunity to join a large independent and National brand based at Head office on the North Shore.

The Assistant Category Manager reports to the Procurement Manager of this broad hardware category. You will be part of a bigger category team, and you will work alongside a wide range of areas within support office. This includes Marketing, Finance, and at store level and supplier level.

 This is a simply fantastic opportunity to learn about driving one of the busiest categories in the business. This category has many thousands of products, and you will learn all about product, pricing, promotional activities and working with a wide range of stakeholders.  

Bring your previous exceptional organisational and support skills to the position. You will have exceptional administration skills; you may have worked with suppliers previously helping in category ranging and buying. You understand the importance of getting back to all parties from the suppliers to the customer.

 You are not fazed by multi-tasking and have the confidence to work at all levels of a business from your direct team to other areas within the support office, suppliers and leadership teams.

As Category assistant Manager, you will:

• Provide Support & cover for this category area of the business this will include product, pricing, negoiatition, procurement and promotional support.
• Manage marketing support for this category and with the marketing team
• Maintaining intranet/extranet content
• You will manage a selected category within this hardware area to develop category management skills,
• Communication with all stakeholders will be important from timely response to suppliers and store customers
• You will be part of putting together national campaigns
• You will be involved with the manager across supplier meetings, stores and will get involved in all sorts of related activity

You will bring:

• Previous experience possibly within a category or procurement role within FMCG or a product-based company.
• A natural communicator, you love to pick up the phone and get to know contacts and drive the activity not hide behind the computer.
• You will have exceptional administration skills
• You will have had some exposure to marketing where you may have written communication pieces, content, created lay ups for catalogues etc.
• You have strong MS office skills
• Data analysis and numbers would also be an advantage
• This role will give you incredible exposure to being part of a successful business. You will learn so much about products from buying to supply and then relationships with all parties

If you can answer yes to the points above, I would love to hear from you.
This is a fantastic company with a strong culture. You will get to go to Events, supplier meetings and you will be working with a passionate manager who has years of knowledge and experience to share.
No two days will be the same.

Please apply to job no 129621 carren.walker-raos@beyond.co.nz with a cover letter that outlines your previous Category or Procurement experience.

You must be an NZ Citizen or Permanent Resident to apply for this position.