We have a fantastic opportunity for an innovative Category Manager to join our Purchasing team! Looking after a diverse product range, we’re looking for a commercial Category Manager to continue curating the offering, ensuring our customers have the most in-demand and trending products in the market.
This role will take ownership of a category portfolio, partnering with suppliers and keeping on top of market trends to provide our customers high quality, best priced products.
If you’re an ambitious, driven Assistant Buyer / Junior Category Manager and are looking to step up and challenge yourself, or have a couple of years as a Category Manager / Buyer and are familiar with category ownership and optimisation, but looking to challenge themselves with different category and product experience; this is a brilliant opportunity to utilise your Buying expertise within a leading, ASX listed eCommerce business, and turn your passion for product into an exceptional offering for our customer!

ABOUT US

We’re Kogan.com, Pioneers of eCommerce in Australia.
At Kogan.com we offer rewarding careers, where you build your skills, are mentored by the best in the industry and get to share your expert knowledge in an innovative Company where your ideas and opinions count. You get to solve really important challenges to drive eCommerce’s future, and get to do it with a great team culture and benefits!
Join Kogan.com to master your craft, do your best work, make a real difference and work with the best. At Kogan.com, your work will have an immediate impact on transforming the Australian and New Zealand retail environment.

IN THIS ROLE YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

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• Identifying commercial opportunities for category expansion including sourcing and developing new products

• Engaging and sourcing key suppliers in World’s best brand and Kogan.com’s Exclusive Brands
• Managing and engaging with key stakeholders, internally and externally, to build effective working relationships and achieve outcomes
• Ensuring the most efficient logistics, warehousing and shipping options are chosen for each product
• Maximising profitability of all products, through a depth of understanding of your category and the market
• Being proactive, innovative and striving to continually develop your category for our customers
• Actively negotiating the best possible trading terms and prices
• Drive and control price changes across our different sales channels, and contribute towards pricing reviews when required
• Ensuring timely import of products and stock management, ensuring fulfilment of customer demand
• Actively managing and monitoring inventory levels to achieve company goals and KPIs, including planning promotional activity and actively reacting to market conditions
• Ensuring revenue and profit targets are exceeded every month
• Monitoring performance and completing range reviews across your category and recommending actions where necessary
• Partnering with Marketing to ensure product listings are well merchandised and discoverable to support the customer journey

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU SHOULD BE:

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• University Degree qualified in a relevant field (Commerce, Business or similar)

• Experienced as a Category Manager within Private Label products, preferably within an eCommerce, Retail or FMCG environment. Experience with Furniture, Manchester or other Home & Living categories will be highly regarded
• Comfortable building and maintaining effective relationships, through exceptional communication and engagement
• Highly analytical and possess commercial nous, being able to recognise opportunity and make quick decisions for the best commercial outcomes, so that we can offer market-leading pricing to our customers
• Comfortable working within a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Being agile and adaptable is key to success!
• A whiz with Microsoft Excel (we’re talking VLOOKUP and pivot tables, not SUM and AVERAGE - and we will test your capabilities)
• Tech savvy and able to use various IT and cloud-based tools to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Ready to challenge, be challenged, and work within our highly disruptive business model.