Highbourne House (Non Res)
Eldon Way, Crick, NN6 7SL

Category Assistant - Commercial

Salary: Competitive basic + bonus
Working Pattern: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Wed 02 Apr 2025 - 11:00 pm
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Category Assistant - Commercial

Qualities Needed

A great positive attitude
80 %
Teamwork
82 %
Attention to detail
94 %
Accuracy
100 %
Excellent Communication Skills
75 %

#BelongWithUs

Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Category Assistant and be part of a hugely successful and friendly Non-Residential team.

The Role:

As a Category Assistant (Commercial at City Plumbing), you will have the drive  and ambition to work within a dynamic, commercial function and you may be you  looking to take your first step into a career in Buying or Category. 

The purpose of this Category Assistant is to provide the information and product data that is the foundation of every decision that is made within our given category.  Category Assistants will need to ensure the basics are completed on time and accurately, and use their experience to support their category manager and develop further by learning about their categories and beginning to learn the foundations of category management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the accurate set up and maintenance of all the products in a given category. This requires an understanding of our systems and the different requirements that need to be managed to ensure all departments and our customers have the correct information to complete a sale. The expert within the given category team on how products are set up and the systems used in order to do this.
  • Accountable for reporting, using data studio to provide the category manager with all the sales and performance information when it is needed. Has a thorough understanding of data studio and is able to provide ‘what has happened’ information for category manager for them to analyse and react accordingly.
  • Responsible for supporting the branch and estimating team requests for information across the given category products that enables them to make better commercial decisions ensuring that responses are provided within agreed timeframes.
  • Responsible for building an understand our competitors and what they are offering in the given product category product and provide category manager with this information as it is requested.
  • Responsible for supporting category manager to deliver compelling, on time, and accurate promotional and pricing plans by ensuring they have the information they need to make the promotional decisions. Accountable for the completion of all templates, promotional logs, image and date requirements to ensure the effective implementation of promotional and pricing plans, to agreed timescales.

This is a hybrid-based opportunity with up to 2-3 days per week in the office.

You should be based in the UK and our Head Offices are in Crick (Northampton).

You:

Previous experience isn't essential for our Category Assistant roles, so you may have retail experience, be a recent graduate or currently working in our network already.

If you are looking to build a career, this could be a great first step on your journey, with the opportunity to work in a dynamic business surrounded by passionate people who are driven to succeed.

We just need you to be great with numbers, sharp with data and able to balance lots of different tasks at the same time! 

Skills and competencies

  • Confidence to build relationships
  • Comfortable working at pace and most of all not be afraid to get stuck in!
  • Have an innovative and agile approach to identify solutions
  • Enjoy working collaboratively with a dedicated focus on driving results 

Our terminology might not sound familiar, so other roles you may know which are similar would be: Admin, Buying, Procurement, Category, Commercial, or Retail

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

  • Bonus
  • Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
  • Life assurance
  • Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
  • Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
  • Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
  • Financial education and loans
  • Flexible working options
  • A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
  • And more!

#BelongWithUs

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.

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