Associate Category Manager

Associate Category Manager

The Associate Category Manager will support the Category Manager in driving growth and profitability of a specific category or group of categories, whilst ensuring an optimal mix of financial, operational, and customer outcomes.

Position Performance Measures:

Financial:

• APG and ASG category sales
• POS sales out
• APG and ASG gross profit (GP)
• Trading margin (buy/sell)
• Gross margin (inclusive of all rebates)
• Supplier income
• Inventory turnover
• GMROI (evolve to GMROIC)

Operational:

• Timeline and process adherence
• Promotion process
• In-store planograms
• Line reviews
• Procurement/sourcing

Customer:

• Timely feedback to all stakeholder queries

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate promotions process across all publications and all channels for assigned categories, ensuring key timelines and process milestones are met
• Work closely with the supplier base to ensure adherence to all expectations associated with promotions
• Administer all supplier income, ensuring timely and accurate billing and reporting
• Manage the set up of all new lines and new suppliers, ensuring all information is captured accurately and in line with key process milestones
• Work with the planogram team on developing customer facing planograms, where applicable
• Work cross-functionally with a wide variety of stakeholders, ensuring all queries associated with the categories are filtered and responded to in a timely manner
• Support the Category Manager in the day to day operational aspects of their category assignment
• Maximize digital channel opportunities (B2C/B2B)
• Administer annual promotional plans (retail and wholesale)
• Manage administration associated with Agreement Sheets, ensuring all information is captured accurately and timely
• Facilitate outcomes in conjunction with the sourcing team on key category sourcing projects, ensuring all timelines and process steps are met
• Regular reporting on category performance

Core competencies:

• Demonstrate company values and lead by personal example
• Focus on GPC core competencies
• Commercial acumen
• Strategic thinking and planning
• Customer oriented
• Relationship builder
• Communication
• Influencing
• Collaborative working
• Decision making
• Analytical thinking

Experience, Education, and Abilities:

• 1-2 years of category leadership experience desired, in a fast-paced organization – ideally a multi-site distribution or retail business
• Strong administrative and time management abilities
• Tertiary qualifications in business or related discipline preferred

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

• Work is performed in a typical office environment and retail store environment. In retail store there may exposure to noise, dust, fumes, or temperature shifts. Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.
• Travel to the various operations, estimated to be approximately 40-50% of time, required.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.