Your Tasks

Assortment Management:

• Managing a superior customer experience and building brand loyalty starting with the right assortment decision management
• Online business knowledge and with focus on assortment building
• Assortment management combines in-depth analytics, consumer purchase preferences, assortment lifecycle planning and sizing and pre-pack optimization into a simplified workflow
• Supervising, securing lifecycle management (phase-in/phase-out), and identify new business opportunities
• Lead coordination projects between departments
• Monitoring & Reporting: Enhance transparency, develop dashboards, and align financial and commercial KPIs with country targets which are based on facts and figures
• Operational Steering: Analyze market and internal data to determine trends, define strategies, and align with stakeholders
• Leadership in developing and responsible for a 24-month business plan for product categories. Preferable knowledge in white goods
• Develop strategies to enhance the customer journey and experience, working cross-functionally and with vendors
• Collaborate with vendors for supply chain excellence and joint business reviews

Monitoring & Reporting:

• Enhance transparency and reporting capabilities
• Steering on improving KPIs and dashboards
• Align a harmonized view of financial and commercial KPIs with Media Saturn countries

Pricing & Demand management:

• Pricing & Demand Management: Support and implement pricing and demand management targets within category management
• Ideally with existing pricing knowledge to drive rollout and implementation

Operational Steering:

• Collect, aggregate, and interpret large amounts of internal and external data to determine trends within the white goods area
• Based on the foundations built by the data analysis, define a strategy and steer with key internal stakeholders
• Actively manage your area performance indicators and align with MMS countries to the overarching company goals and senior management
• Define, test and implement international standards and new frameworks of Category Management processes in collaboration with country counterparts and cross-department work on international level
• Execute implementation of group standards and international targets
• Drive internal & external communication towards colleagues as well as external partners/suppliers
• Develop and maintain a 360-degree/24-month business plan for product categories
• Design and create market and category insights with external partners and within our business to standardize the insights & reports required to create a category strategy & customer journey
• Working with vendor partners to increase turnover, availability and profit by driving Category Management principles
• Working with countries, creating a commercial calendar and governance model to ensure standardized processes are established and implemented
• Definition of Category strategic review rhythm and content

Your Profile

• Degree in economics, business administration or similar qualification
• Several years of professional experience as a category manager or similar role, preferably within the consumer electronics sector
• Extensive knowledge with market research and in business data analytics
• Excellent knowledge of category management and sales principles
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to understand and analyze performance, optimize plans, make quick decisions and measure impact to the business. Analysis of details where necessary
• Functional leader (m/f/d) with strong communication, inter-cultural and presentational skills
• Skilled in execution and project management
• Eagerness to learn, drive change and results oriented
• Business fluent in German and English
• Proficient in Office tools

About Us

International Category Management is dedicated to a customer-oriented and data-driven optimization of our assortments & clusters, development of new categories and to drive operational excellence with our Demand Planning, Pricing, Assortment & Space and Commercial teams.

Their ambition is to offer a superior omnichannel experience, built on customer-centric assortments, competitive prices & seamless availability, thereby driving profitability and relevance.

The best solutions come from bringing together diverse perspectives. Embracing diversity is key to achieving our vision of becoming the Experience Champion. We value inclusion, foster equal opportunity, and welcome you to be part of our team.