Category Manager Bardi

Category Manager
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

Job Purpose**:

Vendor, Technology or Business Unit, Profit & Loss (P&L), commercial and operational ownership by collaborating with all relevant business functions to deliver best in class systems, tools, processes, financial data integrity and reporting

**Responsibilities**:

- Execute the Business Unit strategy in full alignment with the agreed strategy to grow profitable market share.

- Lead the vendor pricing strategy through collaboration with profit team to review price elasticity and handle exception management

- Collaborate with the Business Intelligence team to provide market reports and analysis, and using this data to identify trends to make sound business proposals

- Support development of direct reports and/or development of divisional assistant category managers (ACM's)

- Ownership for full product and vendor lifecycle management, including system accuracy, product adoption & creation and contract management

- Hold operational & commercial relationship with vendor key stakeholders

- Identification of commercial & operational process improvements

- Ensure ongoing use of CRM tools to ensure best in class business continuity

- Input into quarterly vendor business planning and execution.

**Knowledge Skills and Experience

- Highly numerate

- Commercial acumen

- Strong communication skills

- Time management & prioritisation skills

- Strong sense of ownership and accountability

- Excellent analytical skills

- Good relationship skills

- Experience in the IT industry with channel and/or vendor at a category management level, ideally from a finance, purchasing or product marketing background

- Experience of SAP R3 and business warehouse

- Strong Microsoft office skills

- Experience of working within a matrix structure

- Proven ability multi task in a fast paced environment

- Business planning experience with strong operational cadence

**Cultural Competency Requirements:

- Within Tech Data diversity is one of our fundamental shared values.

We are a multi-cultural environment and we pride ourselves on being a welcoming place of work where we celebrate inclusion and champion people from a multitude of backgrounds.

**Join our team to connect the world with the power of technology!