Are you a strategic and commercially-minded category professional with a passion for Kitchens?
This Senior Category Manager opportunity is a brand new role within our Kitchens commercial team. You will lead your team to influence stakeholders, shape market-leading strategies and drive business performance within a trusted organisation.
You will create and deliver a clear category strategy for the Kitchen sector, ensuring our proposition meets market needs while empowering our branch colleagues to serve customers brilliantly. You’ll play a key role in driving our Group Commercial Strategy, managing supplier performance, and ensuring strong trading outcomes.
Location: Location isn’t important but you will need to travel to our Head Office based in Duston, Northamptonshire.

ABOUT US

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.
With over 5 businesses, 19,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

• Lead, coach, and develop a small team to deliver on key commercial priorities while fostering skills growth and personal development
• Define and implement product category strategies, covering ranging, brand proposition, supplier selection, pricing, and route to market, ensuring alignment with Group objectives
• Establish strong working relationships across the business with Regional Directors, Operations Managers, and Branch Managers to influence commercial success.
• Ensure supplier relationships deliver optimal net costs through effective collaboration and relationship management.
• Act as a key commercial stakeholder, liaising with internal teams such as Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Sustainability.
• Support the TP HSE team to maintain high standards across the supply chain, ensuring supplier compliance with Health & Safety standards.
• Drive innovation by introducing new products aligned with market needs.