Your Tasks

Assortment Management:

• Creating a superior customer experience and building brand loyalty starts with the right assortment. 
• Assortment management combines in-depth analytics, consumer purchase preferences, assortment lifecycle planning and sizing and pre-pack optimization into a simplified workflow. 
• The right assortment management removes the guesswork and drives higher sales and margins across all channels with localized customer insights. 
• Monitor and adjust the existing clustering as necessary, identifying and addressing any potentials.
• Through assortment planning, businesses can strategically plan their inventory and manage their catalogue around changes in demand and sales volumes throughout the year to satisfy customers and maximize profitability. 
• Coordinate with Countries on the lifecycle management of products across different categories / optimize phase-in/phase out management.
• Identify new opportunities for Media Saturn and develop 360° Go-to-Market approaches.
• Lead the coordination projects between the countries.

Monitoring & Reporting:

• Enhance transparency and reporting capabilities.
  • Collaborate on improvement of KPIs and dashboards.
  • Align a harmonized view of financial and commercial KPIs with Media Saturn countries.

Pricing & Demand management:

• Understanding the importance of pricing and demand management to operate accordingly. 
• Support the overall targets of pricing and demand management and implement in the category management with the target to optimize cross-department Category Management processes and performances.

Operational Steering:

• Collect, aggregate, and interpret large amounts of internal and external data to determine trends within the IT areas (Gaming, Notebook, Desktop and Console).
• Based on the foundations built by the data analysis, define a strategy and align it with key internal stakeholders. 
• Actively manage in your area performance indicators and align with MMS countries to the overarching company goals.
• Define, test and implement international standards and new frameworks of Category Management processes in collaboration with country counterparts and cross-department work on international level.
• Secure implementation of group standards and international targets.
• Develop and execute internal & external communication towards colleagues as well as external partners/suppliers. 
• Develop and maintain a 360-degree/24-month business plan for product categories.
• Developing strategies and plans of how to enhance customer journeys and experience cross functionally and with vendors.
• Design and create market and category insights with external partners and within our business to standardize the insights & reports required to create a category strategy & customer journey
• Working with vendor partners to increase turnover, availability and profit by driving Category Management principles.
• Working with countries, creating a commercial calendar and governance model to ensure standardized processes are established and implemented
• Definition of Category strategic review rhythm and content.

Your Profile

• Degree in economics, business administration or similar qualification
• 5+ years of professional experience as a category manager or similar role, preferably within the IT consumer electronics sector 
• Experience with market research and in business data analytics, preferably in the IT area.
• Excellent knowledge of category management and sales principles.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to understand and analyze performance, optimize plans, make quick decisions and measure impact to the business. Analysis of details where necessary
• Team player with strong communication, inter-cultural and presentational skills.
• Skilled in execution and project management
• Eagerness to learn, drive change and results oriented
• Business fluent in German and English
• Proficient in Office

About Us

International Category Management is dedicated to a customer-oriented and data-driven optimization of our assortments & clusters, development of new categories and to drive operational excellence with our Demand Planning, Pricing, Assortment&Space and Commercial teams.

Our ambition is to offer a superior omnichannel experience, built on customer-centric assortments, competitive prices & seamless availability, thereby driving profitability and relevance.

Additional Benefits

Job Infos

​Location: Ingolstadt

MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group

Department: HQ - Others

Entrylevel: Professional Level

Type of Employement: Full Time

Working Hours: 37,5

Persona: Job Requisition HQ Employee

Recruiter: Michaela Lenck 

Recruiter: Michaela Lenck