Product Manager

About the Role

At GSF Car Parts, our Category Programme team plays a crucial role in developing our product offering across multiple sales channels. As a Support Product Manager you will support the Programme Manager in ensuring that the category and business objectives are achieved.

This role offers a career in a multi-site, national organisation, giving the opportunity for personal growth and development. The role also offers hybrid office and home working, and a culture that encourages people to work together and develop relationships that help all of us to succeed.

Categories include:

• Oil and Automotive Fluids (Coolant, Adblue, Screen wash, etc.)
• Consumables (Additives and workshop dry consumables)
• Accessories and Performance parts
• Electric vehicle specific parts

• Developing and defining brand strategies within each category considering market size, suppliers, competition, market share, growth, and trends to increase sales, profit, and market share.
• Managing the life cycle of categories, ensuring stocking profiling aligns with business needs and liaising with supply chain and procurement.
• Reviewing lost sales and conversion data to support development of core product lines and category areas.
• Consolidating product offers to improve pricing, availability, or overall commercial offer.
• Working with the pricing team to position category pricing correctly for the market while maximizing sales opportunity.
• Supporting the catalogue team to ensure market‑leading cataloguing information is available.
• Supporting eCommerce channel growth, driving online sales and marketing initiatives.
• Assisting marketing and business needs by implementing compelling category and promotional campaigns to drive growth.
• Working with the procurement team to identify the best sources for products and brands within categories to achieve sales and margin objectives.
• Supporting branches and functional departments with product queries.

Successful candidates will have experience in commercial procurement and/or marketing, ideally within the automotive aftermarket or FMCG environment.

• Knowledge of product management.
• Experience developing channel management and running product promotions.
• Excellent data management skills.
• Advanced Excel skills (Microsoft Office).
• Experience with MAM or similar systems.
• Ability to use data to analyse and interpret business requirements.
• Strong communication, influencing, negotiating, and persuasive skills.
• Ability to act on own initiative.