Category Manager - Fashion
Catch.com.au, Australia
Job Description
As an experienced Category Manager in Fashion, you will be the driving force behind the category. You will have a results driven mindset and a visionary with the ability to grow market share with our business goals and objectives. Reporting to the Business Manager, you will build strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders and influence the direction of the Fashion category which includes Apparel, Underwear, Sporting and Kids wear, all whilst remaining customer centric in your day to day operations.
Success in this role will come from demonstrated experience within a Fashion Apparel environment and the ability to transform ideas into strategies. You will be highly analytical, confident negotiating and able to grow the Fashion Category.
What does a normal day in the life of a Category Manager at Catch look like?
Well no two days at Catch are alike, but you could probably expect your typical day to include some of the following things:
- Develop and manage vendor strategy and partnership ensuring end to end lowest cost
- Set, review and monitor sell prices and promotions. Ensuring we are offering best value in the market to customers
- Consistently build relationships with stakeholders and suppliers
- Deliver day to day analytical support and recommendations in order to develop key strategies to drive sales
- Translate critical consumer insights and analysing consumer data
- Maximise all product sourcing and development opportunities
- Leverage insights from relevant sources to continuously build and evolve the category understanding and ability to partner with customer base
- Lead and mentor your team of Buyers and Sales Coordinators
Requirements
- Exceptional commercial acumen using numbers to guide and influence your decision making process
- Demonstrated category management experience managing multiple brands and suppliers both large and independents.
- Proven leadership skills
- Refined influencing and negotiation skills
- Creative and innovative approach to deliver newness into ranges with a proven history of growing and facilitating change in a category
- Proven experience working with a high level of SKUs
- Enjoys working in a fast paced team environment and able to meet deadlines
- The ability to adapt in a fast paced online environment
- Data driven
Benefits
Drive and passion are hard to generate when we're not feeling valued or having fun, so we make sure our Catchies are looked after well! We provide our passionate people with:
- An organisation that is experiencing exponential growth
- Support and collaboration, not just with their immediate team, but with the broader organisation as well!
- An organisation that can flex when, where and well that works for you and Catch.com.au
- Employee benefits like discounted gym membership, Kmart Group discount and access to other perks within Kmart, free parking, free breakfast, in house learning and development, monthly lunches plus loads more.
About Catch
Back in 2006, Catch set out to shake up Australia’s online retail landscape. We’ve come a long way since! Having been acquired by Wesfarmers in 2019 and now part of the Kmart Group, we have big goals to be the best!
We’re not just one of the country’s top eCommerce players, with a proven track record of growth, an award-winning digital platform and second to none customer experience offering. Behind the scenes, we’re a world-class team of creatives, strategists, developers and innovators, and we’re on the hunt for like-minded people to jump on board.
We don’t play by the rules. We push boundaries. We think big. We stay curious and driven. Together, we embrace challenges and learn new things. All this, for one purpose: to provide our customers with an amazing online shopping experience, every day.
And we’re just getting started
At Catch, we welcome all applications and screen them without attention to race, age, beliefs, sex, orientation, gender identity and disability.