Assistant Category Manager

7 months ago

North Shore City Auckland, New Zealand Mitre 10 Full time

Mitre 10 (New Zealand) Limited have been a part of New Zealand's home improvement culture since 1974. An award-winning success story with a vision to help kiwi love where they live, work and play.

We are transforming our business to enable us to deliver world class customer experiences through the implementation of our Mitre 10 strategy, transformation programme and other key business initiatives and are therefore looking for a passionate **Assistant Category Manager** to join us **permanently** at our Albany based Support Centre, in our Home & Garden Division.

Within Mitre 10 the role of the Assistant Category Manager is to support the Category Manager/s to successfully deliver on their strategies and plans, whilst developing the skills necessary to become a Category Manager within the organisation. In conjunction with this, the Assistant Category Manager plays a critical role in continually improving the range, promotional offer and supplier relationships within the Mitre 10 business.

This role does give you the opportunity to take some product ownership within the division and while you will begin your time with Mitre 10 in one division, you may move between categories/divisions over time to grow your knowledge and experience.

For this position we seek someone with good relationship building skills, experience in MS Excel, commercial acumen, and the ability to drill down into issues to come up with possible solutions that will help the product ranges to continue to grow and thrive.

In addition, we are looking for someone who has:

- Experience in a similar role;
- The ability to understand the financial and business drivers behind category management;
- Confidence in dealing with suppliers, conducting range reviews and presenting recommendations in a convincing and intuitive manner;
- Knowledge and passion for the retail industry, and a strong team player who is adaptable to change;
- Flare for promotion, being able to drive inspiration and solution selling;
- Communication confidence, with the potential to instil trust and confidence; and
- A general knowledge of the building industry or building materials would be helpful
- The high EQ, self-awareness, personal resilience and a sense of humour required to thrive driving considerable change.

The role offers the opportunity to work on Auckland’s North Shore in a positive, fast paced environment that is stimulating to work in. We are a team moving forward, and that is a result of our motivated, skilled team members. Mitre 10 offers an attractive and competitive salary package to suit the successful applicant. We have free parking, impressive team buying privileges, life and trauma insurance, flexible working, birthday day off, discounted medical insurance and more

If you are a highly motivated individual who is passionate about being part of the Mitre 10 team and a company in growth mode, then we want to hear from you. Please provide your CV and include your remuneration expectations, via this website.

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