• Job Description

  Req#: 1034638

  Assistant Category Manager - Marketing
  £33,750 - £39,000 plus benefits (Work level 6A)
  11-month fixed-term contract
  Manchester city centre
  We’re now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home/remote working and the office. You can find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy

  We’re looking for an Assistant Category Manager to join our Procurement team and help drive our strategy across our marketing category. If you can bring us the skills we need, you’ll have the opportunity to make a huge impact, making sure we’re getting the best value for money and reinvesting savings into our communities.

  As an Assistant Category Manager, you’ll be responsible for managing categories such as instore consumables and subscriptions, with an emphasis on contract and supplier management. You’ll work closely with colleagues across the business to support the development of innovative category plans. Our growing procurement team has a £1.3 billion annual spend. It’s a big job. But an even bigger opportunity to grow your profile in this important area of the business.

  What you’ll do

  • Analyse spend and supplier data to identify trends and deliver value, service improvements and commercial benefit
  • Support the team in developing new and effect processes and managing spend from an end-to-end perspective
  • Help drive visibility, control, and compliance across the category
  • Monitor savings against targets, flagging any risks or opportunities to the category manager
  • Own and develop market intelligence reporting and market analysis that will feed into the category strategy
  • Execute sourcing strategies, including tendering, analysis, selection, and negotiation with suppliers
  • Support the category team with procurement projects
  • Make sure all contractual obligations relating to the Co-op and suppliers are set up correctly in line with the supplier framework governance and risk management policies
  • Facilitate supplier meetings and prepare performance improvements plans for underperforming suppliers

  This role would suit people who have

  • Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal and external partners
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability to analyse and interpret data using intermediate excel skills
  • Experience in process improvement
  • Drive and tenacity to work in a fast-paced environment and manage changing deadlines
  • A passion for negotiation and sound commercial thinking ability

  Why Co-op?

  If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

  • An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
  • 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
  • A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
  • Private healthcare for you
  • Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
  • Coaching and training to support your career development
  • Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
  • YuLife app – rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

  At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

  Building a diverse environment

  We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

  We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

  If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

  You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

  You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

  Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

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