Job description
What You Need to Know:
Matrix recruitment are currently recruiting for a a Category Manager within a well-established organisation. This role offers scope to dive deep into product management and category analysis, with exposure to commercial strategy and team collaboration.
Your New Job:
Reporting to the Estimating Supervisor, you’ll play a vital role in the commercial and estimating team, working closely with other departments to drive category performance. The position provides a blend of analysis, project support, and opportunities to share customer and market insights.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Become the go-to expert on the full product range, with a focus on design, features, pricing, and the competitive landscape
- Review sales, revenue, and margin data to inform commercial decision-making
- Support new product launches and market positioning from concept to go-live
- Lead tender and OEM projects, managing these from proposal through launch
- Analyse performance data and support ongoing category strategy, pricing, and lifecycle planning
- Track competitor activity and share insights for commercial positioning and innovation
- Gather customer feedback and turn insights into actionable improvements
- Maintain accurate customer files, price lists, and coordinate updates with the sales team
- Present technical and commercial ideas clearly to a range of audiences
- Represent the business at trade events and support customer visits
- Support various projects across product and commercial teams
What Are We Looking For?:
- Experience in category or product management, with strong commercial acumen
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Strong organisational abilities and attention to detail
- Confident with data analysis, especially using Excel
- Demonstrates diplomacy, decisiveness, and problem-solving skills
- Positive attitude, adaptability, and a team-focused mindset
- Degree in management/business (desirable)
- Experience within the bathroom, trade building products or similar sectors (desirable)
- Strong customer focus and presentation abilities
Apply for This Job:
Apply for this job now or get in touch with Brenda Duffy on 087 434 3544 for more information.
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