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• Managing the product lifecycle process across category to ensure all teams are accountable for maintaining product lifecycles, inventory quality, and exiting skus and stock in a timely way to budget
  
• Ensuring major tender pipelines are maintained and delivered on time, attending kick off meetings, distributing and coordinating category specific portions of the tenders and adding value to the tender process by liaising with the Sales team and ensuring category involvement at the relevant time
  
• Leading the planning, coordination, delivery and reporting of all major category projects contributing to the strategy
  
• Leading and coordinating the Data team to deliver admin excellence
  
• Working with category leadership and the data centre of excellence to develop and deliver the overall data strategy and overall product data compliance
  
• Supporting Non-Standards (extended Range Buying team) to deliver to Customer Engagement Centre (CEC) performance targets
  
• Ensuring excellent delivery by managing category communication as appropriate with cross functional teams, for example Sales, Marketing, Digital, QHSE and Range Proposition
• Collaborating with the Range Proposition team to ensure the range review calendar is developed and adhered to

• A competitive starting salary plus up to 17% annual bonus
  
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
  
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
  
• An excellent pension and 8x salary Life Assurance scheme
  
• A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
  
• Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
• Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

• Demonstrable experience of influencing at all levels including senior stakeholders, with the potential to present projects/ initiatives at Board level, and with peers
  
• Strong time management and self-organisational skills - project management experience would be desirable
  
• Demonstrable people management experience working across functions
  
• Experience of and the confidence to pick up new systems and ways of working quickly
  
• Comfortable and confident working in a strong data led environment with the ability to analyse multiple sources of information in order to drive strategy and business improvement
  
• Agile and innovative in approach to problem solving whilst remaining pragmatic
  
• Good knowledge and experience of change management and implementation of new ways of working

About Us

As the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, Arco combine multi-channel distribution of 170,000+ products with specialist training, consultancy, and site services. Our history spans over almost 140 years, and we are at the start of an exciting new chapter, with ambitions to make us more profitable and sustainable, following the recent appointment of our new CEO.

We’re 100% committed to developing our business in a way that benefits our people, our customers, the communities we serve and the planet. We are now moving forward through a period of change as we begin to align our culture, behaviours and ways of working to drive performance and ensures we will succeed together and be rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Our behaviours; Perform, Care, Collaborate and Deliver, create and turn in to tangible actions, and we’re now looking to recruit a Category Operations Manager who can align to these behaviours, and help us achieve our goals.