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Assistant Category & Pricing Manager – Post Pay

London (Hybrid Working)
Permanent
Full-time

Grade 3

Our passion at Currys is helping everyone enjoy the amazing technology. We are proud of the service levels we provide for our customer – online, in-store or in their homes. And it’s all down to our people, 30,000+ capable and committed colleagues, learning together, growing together, making us amazing and celebrating the wins.

The Assistant Category & Pricing Manager for Connected Mobile is responsible for the commercial performance of the category through the delivery of market leading propositions through pricing and products. As a key member of the commercial team, you will work across multiple functions – Commercial Marketing, Buying, Strategic Planning, Connectivity, Analytics; delivered through multiple channels including Retail, Online and Call Centres across all brands. You will be expected to present details on the performance of your category to your line manager ensuring strong understanding of how the category targets are achieved.

Duties & responsibilities:

• Deliver to budget on volume, margin and market share metrics across all channels
• Produce daily sales reporting to understand key drivers of performance across categories and channels
• Analyse competitor data, recommend price changes to ensure a strong competitive position
• Work closely with the Go to Market and Marketing teams to nominate our best propositions
• Liaise with Connectivity to drive decisions around tariff ranging and hitting network targets
• Attend and contribute to sales forecasting meetings ensuring good stock availability in life and plan for new launches and end of life stock management
• Work with the Category & Pricing Manager to develop a strategic long-term plan for the development of the category
• Develop with your line manager a multi-channel strategy and work with the channel trading teams to deliver the plan
• Collaborative working and building strong relationships within the Mobile Category to share best practice, ways of working and support around key trading

Required experience/qualifications:

• Ability to process complex information and simplify the outcome
• Planning,organisation & communication skills
• Experience in the telecoms industry
• Product or channel marketing process experience
• Ambitious self-starter with proven track record in delivering strong commercial results
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong range creation / management skills
• Strong communication and relationship management skills with internal and external Stakeholders
• Commercial acumen and financial awareness
• Educated to Degree standard or equivalent

We’re one team and we celebrate all of the great things you do. One way we show our gratitude is by giving you access to a range of lifestyle benefits including:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Access to discretionary company bonus scheme
• Life Assurance
• Staff discounts and offers
• Hybrid working; arrangements will depend on your role and business requirements. You could be working from our primary Currys Campus at Waterloo (WeWork), meeting & collaborating at Currys regional workspaces or working from home

Beyond that, we'll be with you every step of the way, enabling you to get the most out of your role. We're building a team that brings technology to people, making their lives better, easier and fuller, and you can be part of it.

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