Senior Category Associate; FTC

Position: Senior Category Associate (12-months FTC)
Location: City Of London

Hi, we’re Bloom & Wild. We don’t just send flowers. We help our customers to care wildly. Caring wildly is celebrating the little things we all do for each other every day. Not just the big occasions. It’s being there for the highs. Stepping up for the lows.

We care wildly about people and our planet. Which is why we’re so proud to be a certified B Corp™ – committed to making long-term positive change for our community, and the world around us.

Founded in 2013, our mission back then was to make sending and receiving flowers the joy that it should be, by harnessing technology, brand and letterbox delivery. We announced £75 million Series D funding in 2021 and that same year acquired bloomon in The Netherlands and Bergamotte in France. Together, we’ve fulfilled and delivered over 20 million orders (and counting!), making us the largest direct to consumer flower business in Europe.

Now home to a family of 3 beautiful brands, we’re driven by our vision to create the destination for making life a little more thoughtful and beautiful. And we won't stop at flowers and plants. Starting with the Bloom & Wild brand, we're expanding our gifting offering to other categories like cakes, candles and cocktails. This is all part of our ambition to build Europe's #1 direct to consumer gifting destination.

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️ The Range Team @ Bloom & Wild Group

We're responsible for concepting, developing and launching our beautiful product ranges for all markets and platforms. What began as a range of just three bouquets of letterbox flowers, now spans an ever-evolving collection of flowers, plants, gifts, addons and much more.

We care wildly about curating a thoughtful range of gifts that our customers will be proud to send, and love to receive. We collaborate with many teams across the business to support our ideation and decision making; from gathering customer insight and research with BI, creative design with our Creative team, to unit economics with Finance, and execution with our Supply and Quality teams.

This role reports to Jess, our Category Lead and would involve working on our non-horticultural range across a variety of categories including brownies, candles, cocktails and more.

⚙️ What you'll be doing:

As a Senior Category Associate you will play an integral role in the range development process for our Non-Horticultural collection by providing administrative support for products from conception through to launch.

Supporting our Non-Horticultural Category Launches across all markets:

• Requesting and collating supplier catalogues to support Range Team with quarterly range planning
• Overall responsibility for managing and maintaining samples for range reviews, photography and warehouse testing
• Co‑ordinating range share sessions with wider stakeholders, preparing samples, note taking and follow ups
• Supporting with document prep ahead of launches eg. Photography added to Range Plans, naming checks, warehouse docs updated
• Scheduling range briefs for other stakeholders to prepare for launch eg. SKU Copy briefing, photography timelines
• Carrying out product checks when SKUs launched - correct name, pricing, photography etc.

Supporting across a breadth of category and buying admin tasks, including:

• Building our network of potential partners by managing our prospective supplier database and acting as the first point of contact for new leads.
• Triaging range questions from suppliers and ensuring any actions are carried out
• Keeping category information and insights clearly documented and up‑to‑date to enable stakeholders to self‑serve as much as possible
• Owning competitor analysis and tracking, identifying areas of opportunity for innovation
• Inputting and supporting on monthly/seasonal retros.

✅ You’ll love this role if you…

• Possess excellent planning & organisational skills
• Enjoy creating streamlined processes with great documentation
• Can solve problems and tackle challenges with a positive attitude
• Possess strong communication skills and are comfortable building relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Are reliable in driving forward projects independently
• Are keen to develop skills in category planning and execution
• Are capable of…