Support Product Manager

About The Role

At GSF Car Parts, the Category Programme team plays a crucial part in developing our product offering across multiple sales channels. As a Support Product Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that category and business objectives are achieved for this area and reporting into the Programme Manager.

The programme team covers multiple category areas including: Oil and Automotive Fluids (Coolant, AdBlue, Screen wash, etc), Consumables (Additives and workshop dry consumables), Accessories and Performance parts, and Electric vehicle specific parts.

This role offers a hybrid office and home working arrangement and a career in a multi-site, national organisation, providing opportunities for personal growth and development.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and define brand strategies within each category to increase sales, profit and market share.
• Effectively manage the lifecycle of categories, ensuring stocking profiling programmes are relevant and liaising with supply chain and procurement to optimise stock holding.
• Review lost sales and conversion data to support development of core product lines and category areas.
• Consolidate the product offer where required to support improved pricing, availability or overall commercial offer.
• Work with the pricing team to position category pricing correctly for the market while maximising sales opportunity.
• Support the catalogue team to ensure market-leading cataloguing information is available.
• Support e-commerce channel growth by driving online sales and marketing initiatives.
• Assist marketing and business needs by implementing compelling category and promotional campaigns to drive growth.
• Work with the procurement team to identify the best sources for products and brands within categories to achieve group sales and margin objectives.
• Support branches and functional departments with product queries.

About You

The successful candidate will have experience in commercial procurement and/or marketing, ideally within the automotive aftermarket or FMCG environment. You will possess:

• Knowledge of product management.
• Experience developing channel management and running product promotions.
• Excellent data management skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, especially advanced Excel.
• Experience of MAM or similar systems would be advantageous.
• Experience of using data to analyse and interpret business requirements.
• Strong communication skills.
• Influencing, negotiating and persuasive skills.
• Ability to act on own initiative.

The successful candidate will have experience in commercial procurement and/or marketing, ideally within the automotive aftermarket or FMCG environment. You will possess:

• Knowledge of product management.
• Experience developing channel management and running product promotions.
• Excellent data management skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, especially advanced Excel.
• Experience of MAM or similar systems would be advantageous.
• Experience of using data to analyse and interpret business requirements.
• Strong communication skills.
• Influencing, negotiating and persuasive skills.
• Ability to act on own initiative.