Your Tasks
Assortment Management:
1. Managing a superior customer experience and building brand loyalty starting with the right assortment decision management
2. Online business knowledge and with focus on assortment building
3. Assortment management combines in-depth analytics, consumer purchase preferences, assortment lifecycle planning and sizing and pre-pack optimization into a simplified workflow
4. Supervising, securing lifecycle management (phase-in/phase-out), and identify new business opportunities
5. Lead coordination projects between departments
6. Monitoring & Reporting: Enhance transparency, develop dashboards, and align financial and commercial KPIs with country targets which are based on facts and figures
7. Operational Steering: Analyze market and internal data to determine trends, define strategies, and align with stakeholders
8. Leadership in developing and responsible for a 24-month business plan for product categories. Preferable knowledge in white goods
9. Develop strategies to enhance the customer journey and experience, working cross-functionally and with vendors
10. Collaborate with vendors for supply chain excellence and joint business reviews
Monitoring & Reporting:
11. 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:
12. Pricing & Demand Management: Support and implement pricing and demand management targets within category management
13. Ideally with existing pricing knowledge to drive rollout and implementation
Operational Steering:
14. Collect, aggregate, and interpret large amounts of internal and external data to determine trends within the white goods area
15. Based on the foundations built by the data analysis, define a strategy and steer with key internal stakeholders
16. Actively manage your area performance indicators and align with MMS countries to the overarching company goals and senior management
17. 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
18. Execute implementation of group standards and international targets
19. Drive internal & external communication towards colleagues as well as external partners/suppliers
20. Develop and maintain a 360-degree/24-month business plan for product categories
21. 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
22. Working with vendor partners to increase turnover, availability and profit by driving Category Management principles
23. Working with countries, creating a commercial calendar and governance model to ensure standardized processes are established and implemented
24. Definition of Category strategic review rhythm and content
Your Profile
25. Degree in economics, business administration or similar qualification
26. Several years of professional experience as a category manager or similar role, preferably within the consumer electronics sector
27. Extensive knowledge with market research and in business data analytics
28. Excellent knowledge of category management and sales principles
29. 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
30. Functional leader (m/f/d) with strong communication, inter-cultural and presentational skills
31. Skilled in execution and project management
32. Eagerness to learn, drive change and results oriented
33. Business fluent in German and English
34. 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.
Additional Benefits
Job Infos
Location: Ingolstadt
MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group
Department: HQ - Others
Entrylevel: Professional Level
Type of Employement: Full Time
Working Hours: 37,5
Persona: Job Requisition HQ Manager