Category Buyer - Non-Alcoholic Beverages (m/w/d)

Location: 50933 Cologne | Contract type: Full time, unlimited | Job ID: 908301

What we plan together: You have a sense of taste, trends and quality – especially when it comes to soft drinks? Then become part of the commodity discount (PENNY) division of REWE Group Buying, which controls the REWE Group's goods business in Germany. Together with you, we want to further expand our success in the area of beverages and set new trends. Become a negotiator, trendscout and innovation driver. We look forward to your application!

What you do with us: You take responsibility: You develop and customize the range of soft drinks – from selection to quantity planning to pricing.

You conduct sovereign supplier negotiations, annual discussions and tastings.

You’re driving an attractive action business by planning actions, finding articles and quantities, and shaping the sales promotion measures such as hand sheets and POS actions.

You’re testing the market and driving active trend scouting to identify product innovations and innovations at an early stage.

You use your analytical skills: You regularly carry out success analyses (e.g. sales, raw yield, degree of distribution) and derive assortment and price optimizations.

Together with the assistant, you will ensure the careful care of all relevant data in the goods management system.

You work closely with internal and external interfaces – from quality assurance to regions to marketing.

What convinces us: Your personality: self-sponsored, goal-oriented and entrepreneurial work characterizes you. Team skills, communication and enforcement strength complete your profile.

Your background: A successfully completed study with a focus on economics or a comparable qualification.

Your experience: Multiannual professional experience in purchasing or category management, ideally in the field of food or in the trade environment.

Your skills: Very good MS Office skills, especially Excel; Experience in handling goods management systems of advantage.

Your language skills: You have fluent German and very good English skills.

What we offer: REWE Group as one of Europe's largest trading and tourism companies offers unique conditions for those who want to move. Discover a living employer that gives you confidence, free spaces for design and promotes innovation and fresh ideas through flexible structures. Who works with us and moves a lot can expect a lot:

Attractive remuneration: With special services such as holiday and Christmas money, asset-effective services, occupational pensions, canteen grants and discounted Germany ticket as well as benefits in cycling leasing. Employee discount: at REWE, PENNY, toom construction market and tourism. Work-Life-Balance: With flexible working time without core times, home office, temporary models, farm nurseries, contemporary parent-child offices, support in finding childcare and care. Personal training: With comprehensive seminars, specialist academies, tech talks, e-learnings and participation in conferences and hackathons. Health management: with preventive examinations, sports, health and cooking classes. Design space: co-determination in the selection of algorithms, analysis techniques and technologies and independent work on exciting issues from a wide range of business areas (supply chain, logistics, marketing, customer service). Agile's environment: collaboration with agile developer teams in the big data context. Networked: REWE Group’s enterprise-wide networks, such as our LGBTIQ network “DITO – different together” and the women’s network “f.ernetzt” for the exchange of career and personal development.

For more information, see jobs.rewe-group.com.

We look forward to your online application with your availability and salary presentation. We cannot send back application documents in paper form.

You have questions about this position (Job ID: 908301)? Then register with our application hotline at 0221 149-7110.

We stress that all people - regardless of gender/sex identity, ethnic origin and nationality, social origin, religion/worldview, physical and mental abilities, age as well as sexual orientation or other individual characteristics - are equally welcome. JOBV1_EN