Your Tasks
Assortment Management:
* Creating a superior customer experience and building brand loyalty starts with the right assortment.
* Assortment management combines in-depth analytics, consumer purchase preferences, assortment lifecycle planning and sizing and pre-pack optimization into a simplified workflow.
* The right assortment management removes the guesswork and drives higher sales and margins across all channels with localized customer insights.
* Monitor and adjust the existing clustering as necessary, identifying and addressing any potentials.
* Through assortment planning, businesses can strategically plan their inventory and manage their catalogue around changes in demand and sales volumes throughout the year to satisfy customers and maximize profitability.
* Coordinate with Countries on the lifecycle management of products across different categories / optimize phase-in/phase out management.
* Identify new opportunities for Media Saturn and develop 360° Go-to-Market approaches.
* Lead the coordination projects between the countries.
Monitoring & Reporting:
* Enhance transparency and reporting capabilities.
o Collaborate on improvement of KPIs and dashboards.
o Align a harmonized view of financial and commercial KPIs with Media Saturn countries.
Pricing & Demand management:
* Understanding the importance of pricing and demand management to operate accordingly.
* Support the overall targets of pricing and demand management and implement in the category management with the target to optimize cross-department Category Management processes and performances.
Operational Steering:
* Collect, aggregate, and interpret large amounts of internal and external data to determine trends within the IT areas (Gaming, Notebook, Desktop and Console).
* Based on the foundations built by the data analysis, define a strategy and align it with key internal stakeholders.
* Actively manage in your area performance indicators and align with MMS countries to the overarching company goals.
* 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.
* Secure implementation of group standards and international targets.
* Develop and execute internal & external communication towards colleagues as well as external partners/suppliers.
* Develop and maintain a 360-degree/24-month business plan for product categories.
* Developing strategies and plans of how to enhance customer journeys and experience cross functionally and with vendors.
* 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 IT consumer electronics sector
* Experience with market research and in business data analytics, preferably in the IT area.
* 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
* Team player 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
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.
Our ambition is to offer a superior omnichannel experience, built on customer-centric assortments, competitive prices & seamless availability, thereby driving profitability and relevance.
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 Employee
Recruiter: Michaela Lenck
Recruiter: Michaela Lenck