Category Manager Food Meat & Sausage, Convenience and Gastronomy (m/f/d)

We're looking for you! You are responsible for the strategic and operational development of the meat and sausage products, convenience and gastro products in the filialized distribution. The aim of the position is to sustainably increase sales, frequency and the absolute result through an optimized range and price strategy, professional competition observation as well as effective promotion and marketing control. Let's get to know each other. Our client, your future company: A successful, future-oriented family company with decades of expertise in meat and sausage production. The company is in dynamic growth and focuses heavily on digitization, process optimization and innovative product concepts. Your location: We are looking for you at the next time for the Chemnitz area (Saxons). Category Manager Food (m/w/d) Meat & sausage, convenience and gastro Reference number: 3008; Location: Großraum Chemnitz (Sachsen)

Assortment management: Responsibility for assortment design, care and optimisation in all relevant categories, securing a customer-oriented, economical and in-class range, evaluating sales and potential analyses for deriving assortment decisions and introducing new products including Economic analysis and test phases Price and margin control: development and ongoing optimization of the pricing strategy for the base range, determination of the promotion prices in coordination with sales, purchasing and controlling, analysis of price elasticities, cover contributions and sales effects, and ensuring a strong price-performance positioning in the market environment Competition analysis: Continuous monitoring of competition (sortment, prices, promotions, trends), compilation of regular competitive reports with recommendations for action and deriving strategic measures to differentiate and improve market position Marketing & Action Management: Conception, Planning and Evaluation of Weekly Special Offers (Actions), Analysis of Sales Exhaustion and Sales Potentials of Actions, Control of Advertising Agents in close coordination with Marketing, Sales and Purchasing, and Ensuring Target Group-specific and Profitable Action Policy Purchasing Trade Goods: Responsibility for the operational and strategic purchasing of all trade goods, supplier evaluation and development, contract and contract negotiations, as well as the establishment of long-term partnerships to ensure quality, supply security and conditions Use of raw material market opportunities (meat): Observation of commodity markets, in particular meat prices and availability, derivation of purchasing and marketing opportunities (e.g. cuts, price windows, special items) and cooperation with production, QS and sales for the best possible recovery Result Responsibility: Ensuring the sales, frequency and earnings targets of the supervised categories, proactive derivation and implementation of measures to improve earnings and close cooperation with controlling, sales and management

Completed studies (BWL, Trade Management, Food Management, etc.) or comparable commercial qualification Multiannual professional experience in category management, ideally in the meat or fresh areas of a filialized food company Experience in purchasing commercial goods and in supplier negotiations knowledge of meat and sausage products, convenience, gastro products, Good knowledge of pricing and assortment mechanics in LEH/meat trade, raw material markets meat, marketing and promotional business Strong analytical skills (price/sales analyses, coverage contributions, potential determination) Impressed entrepreneurial thinking with result orientation as well as decision-making, sense of responsibility and hands-on mentality High market and customer orientation, communication strength and safe occurrence compared to internal and external partners Structured, independent and proactive operation Ability to translate complex data into clear action recommendations

Responsive key role with great design space Modern working environment and flat hierarchies Short decision-making and value-adding corporate culture Attractive contract and development conditions