Company Description
Do you have a strong understanding of online trading, what sells and drives sales, can hit the ground running and available for a contract ASAP?
The Warehouse Group looks after some of Aotearoa's most famous and beloved retail brands, including The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery and Noel Leeming. They stay famous and beloved because we're always working to deliver relevant and exciting customer experiences to New Zealanders. We have recently embraced a brand-led model, ensuring we remain laser-focused on our customers and markets specific to them. Retail is more competitive than ever, and we need to bring our A-game!
We're looking for a switched-on, self-starter to join the team for a couple of months contract to support a peak period for us – starting ASAP!
Job Description As eCommerce Category Manager, the role centres around developing and implementing online category plans and campaigns to achieve respective forecasts. You'll work across the business in developing strategies to ensure your online category is optimally merchandised. This is a multi-faceted role, a solid mix between strategic, creative, analytical, and implementation.
A large part of your day-to-day will involve analysing product performance and trends, and then turning the data into key insights around possible improvements and how to drive sales. There is a huge amount of scope to influence and change the way our customers interact with us on a digital platform.
Core responsibilities will see you:
Prioritise categories within your portfolio based on online performance
Collaborate with Merchandise and Marketing to develop category online plans based on customer, channel, and product insights, competitive environment, and international best practice
Identify category gaps and drive online range extension
Influence and coordinate across teams to deliver against plans and wider business strategies
Identify category trading opportunities for online events or promotions
Prepare and maintain category online event calendar
Manage category presence online to support promotional activity of the wider business
Identify and coordinate marketing and digital content support for category-specific promotions
Analyse and understand detail behind performance reports and use them to identify potential opportunities or deficiencies
Provide regular reporting on category performance
Identify category merchandising opportunities and implement improvements to search, navigation, filters, and sorting rules
Qualifications There is no playbook for this role so we will rely on your comfort to roll up your sleeves and join us in paving the way, embracing new ways of working and reshaping our category digital focus and activities.
We are looking for:
Intermediate to advanced Excel including ability to do basic VLOOKUPs
Strong analytical and numeric skills
Experience with Google Analytics
Strong relationship building and influencing skills
Commercial and customer-focused mind-set
Creative problem solving and multitasking ability
A team player but also able to work independently
Enthusiasm for online
Prior experience in eCommerce or category management preferred
It would be great if you also have:
Understanding of SQL/Databases advantageous
XML experience a bonus
Knowledge and experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Eagle Eye, BazaarVoice
If you think your background might lend itself well to success here and can start immediately/ASAP, apply today!
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