Company Description
More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.
We’re on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of Care, Courage, Openness, and Simplicity. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.

Job Description

• Define a holistic annual category strategy across key commercial dimensions to steer the category business.
• Work with respective Country/Cluster Head to tie category strategy into the broader country/ cluster plan for the year (incl. Budgeting, LE Forecasting, and Promo Planning).
• Collaborate with key central teams/ departments (e.g., VM, Marketing, CRM) to influence strategies and actions through local market category input.
• Obtain deep understanding of category dynamics (Customers, Market, Competitors), identifying growth opportunities and blockers.
• Continuously analyze main business KPIs across Sales/Category/Customer/Product dimensions and plan correcting actions.
• Recommends adjustments and exceptions of local prices on brand/product level, from defined global pricing strategy.
• Create a full-year promo plan accounting for category dynamics and relevancy, and align actions with central promotion team (complementary to global central campaign calendar) and Country/ Cluster Head.
• Actively monitor campaign/ promo performance and track budget spend vs. local plan.
• Run topical/brand/product promotions on short notice depending on business need.
• Contribute to the business strategy and requirements for product sorting in PLP and search results, in coordination with the rest of Category Managers (through SME)
• Contribute to the business strategy and requirements for Up-selling and Cross-selling through the product recommendation boxes, in coordination with the rest of Category Managers (through SME)
• Collaboration with Graphics and Shop OPS teams for category-related banners.
• Provide inputs for a continuous QA process to Shop Operations and signs-off (if needed) any adjustment in the category content.

Please note the contract duration would be approximately of 15 months.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in a similar FMCG / e-Commerce environment, ideally within pet sector
• Strong commercial and technical skills, with deep understanding of the different core business functions and how they work together
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills with the proven ability to influence at all business levels
• Ability to understand customer needs and market requirements as well as intuitive feeling for brands and trends
• Proficieny in English and Native level of Czech language
• Hard working, with a hands-on, results-focused approach
• High analytical and numerical competency

Additional Information

Please refer the Job description for details