Category Assistant

#BelongWithUs A great opportunity for a recent graduate to come and join our Category team as a Graduate Category Assistant that offers great career progression and development.The Role: As a Graduate Category Assistant, you’ll be stepping into an exciting, fast-paced environment that offers real opportunities for long-term career growth. Working within a dynamic commercial function, you'll be part of a team at the heart of business decisions, helping shape product ranges and strategies. This Graduate Category Assistant is an ideal starting point for anyone looking to build a career in Buying or Category Management.In this Category Assistant role, you'll be a key contact for our branch network and suppliers, supporting the Category team in ensuring we provide the best product range at the right margins. You'll also help secure supplier funding, contributing directly to our success. A career in Category offers continuous learning, progression, and the chance to make a real impact on the business. So why not read on to find out more about our latest Graduate Category Assistant role.Key Responsibilities Using your great communication skills, you will ensure requests and queries from our Branches are dealt with quickly and efficientlyYou’ll have an eye for detail, ensuring accurate data is provided to help the team understand the trading performance of our categories and customersA great team player, who will collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders of all levels to help deliver commercial projects in a fast paced & growing categoryYou will also own & maintain data, to ensure our online content, system data, pricing & promotional activity is  accurate and customer-focused This is a hybrid-based with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire. As a team we are in the office two to three times per week.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 relationshipsComfortable working at pace and most of all not be afraid to get stuck in!Have an innovative and agile approach to identify solutionsEnjoy 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 RetailUs: 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: BonusDiscounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailersLife assuranceExtended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and moreMental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each otherComplete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages developmentFinancial education and loansFlexible working optionsA business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true selfAnd 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.