Category Assistant - Hybrid

The Company: An exciting opportunity for a Category Assistant Hybrid to join a fast-moving team, excellent training and development. You will be responsible for preparing and analysing commercial data and market trends. Setting up critical paths with factories for selected products ensuring the required shipment dates are met. Supporting the Category Manager to deliver a pipeline of new products for customer selection. maintaining required administration accurately and completely. Benefits: Hybrid working - 3 days in the office a week. Responsibilities Understand what the competition are selling / pricing structures / marketing for given product areas. Spot and development new products sales opportunities. Create development diaries and track and push internally and externally with the factories any developments. Samples management required for customer meetings. Costing for new factory designs Cross costing current designs Updating current and new prices on price lists Setting up critical paths with factories for selected products ensuring we can meet the required shipment dates to meet launch. Creating and sending out internally packaging forms and photography forms Responsible for weekly Intake sheets being updated and sent to our customer giving overview of approvals and what is outstanding. Escalating and tracking any products at risk and agreeing an action plan. Work with the Technical team to highlight any potential issues. Track these through development to ..... full job details .....