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Wolverhampton NDC
Advertising Salary
Market Leading
Vacancy Type
Permanent - Full Time

About The Role

About The Role 

At GSF Car Parts, our Category Programme team play a crucial part in the development of our product offering across our multiple sales channels.  As a Support Programme Manager you will be responsible in ensuring that the category and business objectives are achieved for this area reporting into the Programme Manager. 

  • The programme team covers multiple category areas including: 
  • Oil and Automotive Fluids (Coolant, Adblue, Screen wash etc) 

  • Consumables (Additives and workshop dry consumables) 

  • Accessories and Performance parts 

  • Electric vehicle specific parts 

For the right individual, this role offers a career in a multi-site, national organisation, giving the opportunity for personal growth and development. We pride ourselves in a culture of encouraging our people to work together and develop relationships that help all of us to succeed. 
 
With our aim to be a flexible employer, this role offers hybrid office and home working.  
 
Main Duties – Supporting the Programme manager/Programme team on the below: 
 

    • Developing and defining the brand strategies within each of the categories which consider the market size, suppliers, competition, market share, growth and trends within the marketplace that will increase sales, profit and market share. To ensure that our product offer and buying terms are optimised 
      • To effectively manage the life cycle of your categories, ensure that the stocking profiling programme is relevant for the needs of the business liaising with supply chain and procurement to ensure the category stock holding are effective. 

      • Review lost sales and conversion data to support development of core product lines and category areas. 

      • Consolidate the product offer where required to support improved pricing, availability, or overall commercial offer. 

      • Working with the pricing team to ensure that the category pricing is positioned correct for the market while maximising the sales opportunity. 

      •  Supporting catalogue team to ensure market leading cataloguing information is available  

      • Support Ecommerce Channel Growth, supporting online sales and driving different online marketing initiatives  

      • Assist marketing and business needs by implementing compelling category & promotional campaigns to drive growth. 

      • Working with the Procurement team to identify the best sources for the products and brands within the categories to ensure that group objectives are achieved in terms of sales and margin 

    • Supporting the branches and functional departments with product queries. 

About You

About You 

The successful candidate will have experience in commercial procurement, and/or marketing, ideally within the automotive aftermarket, or FMCG environment.  
 
What you'll need to succeed: 

    • Knowledge of product management 
      • Experience of developing channel management and running product promotions 

      • Excellent data management skills 

      • Experience of Microsoft Office, especially advanced Excel 

      • Experience of MAM or similar would be advantageous 

      • Experience of using data to analyse and interpret business requirements 

      • Strong communication skills 

      • Influencing, negotiating and persuasive skills 

    • Ability to act on own initiative 

About Us

GSF Car Parts is one of the UK’s leading automotive parts distributors, supplying thousands of independent garages throughout the UK and Ireland with parts, tools, garage equipment and specialist training. The group has over 175 branches nationwide and a turnover exceeding £475 million. Built on the heritage and success of a dozen local brand identities acquired over several years, we have traded as one brand since November 2021. Our branch network is bolstered by centralised support and expertise from specialist departments in key areas such as procurement and supply chain, marketing and national accounts. The business also benefits from integrated IT systems, which include our industry leading catalogue system, Allicat, and access to the Group's national garage programme, Servicesure. #INDGSF

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