Product Manager

About The Role

At GSF Car Parts, our Category Programme team plays a crucial part in the development of our product offering across our multiple sales channels. As a Support Product Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that the category and business objectives are achieved for this area reporting into the Programme Manager.

The programme team covers multiple category areas including:

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

• Develop and define the brand strategies within each category, considering market size, suppliers, competition, market share, growth and trends to increase sales, profit and market share, and ensure product offers and buying terms are optimised.
• Effectively manage the lifecycle of your categories and ensure stocking profiling is relevant for the business needs, liaising with supply chain and procurement to ensure optimal category stockholding.
• Review lost sales and conversion data to support development of core product lines and category areas.
• Consolidate the product offer to support improved pricing, availability, or overall commercial offer.
• Work with the pricing team to position category pricing for the market while maximising sales opportunities.
• Support the catalogue team to ensure market-leading cataloguing information is available.
• Support Ecommerce Channel growth, supporting online sales and driving online marketing initiatives.
• Assist marketing and business needs by implementing compelling category and promotional campaigns to drive growth.
• Work with the Procurement team to identify the best sources for products and brands within the categories to achieve sales and margin objectives.
• Support branches and functional departments with product queries.

For the right individual, this role offers a career in a multi-site, national organisation, providing opportunities for personal growth and development. We encourage our people to work together and develop relationships that help all of us succeed.

With our aim to be a flexible employer, this role offers hybrid office and home working.

The successful candidate will have experience in commercial procurement and/or marketing, ideally within the automotive aftermarket or FMCG environment.

• Knowledge of product management
• Experience of developing channel management and running product promotions
• Excellent data management skills
• Experience of Microsoft Office, especially advanced Excel
• Experience of MAM or similar would be advantageous
• Experience of using data to analyse and interpret business requirements
• Strong communication skills
• Influencing, negotiating and persuasive skills
• Ability to act on own initiative