About The... We are currently recruiting for a Category Manager - Product... This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants the strategic lead on design direction across Home and Seasonal categories. Both...
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants the strategic lead on design direction across Home and Seasonal categories.
Both internally and externally facing the role requires the candidate to look externally at the market for product and design trends through trend fairs, inspirational trips and product selection trips to create style guides, surface patterns, and colours stories.
Directing the internal buying teams to create new products and ranges to deliver growth targets as well as leading on identifying range gaps to build future range direction.
The candidate will be working with the sourcing and buying teams as well as the factories as the strategic lead on design direction for the Home & Seasonal ranges. Working with the teams commercially to build product ranges, taking learning's from what worked and what didn’t and looking for ways to evolve our proposition.
There will be a fair amount of travel with this role on an international level therefore flexibility is key.
What are we looking for:
Broad trend experience across a range of product categories.
Previous ownership of strategic design direction.
Understanding of implementing ways of working between UK buying teams and Far East sourcing offices.
Capability for creative styling through visual merchandising and marketing asset creation.
Far East sourcing and development experience.
Product design for retail environment.
Fresh thinking is the name of the game. We think innovatively to provide our customers with quality products and fresh, tasty food from all over the world.
We love talking to suppliers about their products and going out in the field (quite literally) to see what we’re buying for ourselves. We’re refreshingly different because we’re the UK’s most integrated food retailer with our own bakery, cooked meat factory, cheese packaging facilities, fish processing plants and more.
Together we’re a team of 450 people who decide what we sell and at what price. We negotiate deals with suppliers. We listen to what brands and products our customers want. And we look for the best local produce, tracking down products around the world to meet constantly changing tastes.
Own brands. Value brands. Global brands. We take great pride in them all. We also offer you the chance to specialise whether fashion, fruit or frozen food is your passion.
Why Morrisons? We’re multi-award winning - named retailer of the year for international wine and meat & fish. We prepare more food in our stores than any other UK retailer. We also have more in-store Butchers, Fishmongers and Bakers than our competitors. Put simply we’re as passionate about providing good quality products as you are.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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