Category Manager – Home & Garden, Sports, Kids
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Category Manager driving growth strategy, assortment, and customer experience for refurbed’s refurbished Home, Garden, Sports, and Kids marketplace categories. Using data, automation, and cross-functional collaboration to expand sustainable European commerce.
Responsibilities:
- Define the mid-term category growth strategy, including targets, assortment priorities, and category-specific growth opportunities
- Identify and close assortment gaps across subcategories, brands, and top-selling products with business developers and account managers
- Assess category performance, stock availability, and attractiveness; trigger sourcing and commercial actions to improve performance
- Prioritise improvements to the on-site category experience, product presentation, and customer journey with the product team using competitor insights and customer data
- Automate processes to focus more time on insights and recommendations
- Act as the category expert and point of contact for internal teams
- Report to the Category Management Team Lead and work closely with the Head of New Categories
Requirements:
- 4+ years of relevant experience in a category management or commercial analytics role, in a dynamic e-commerce and/or marketplace environment
- Highly analytical and structured, with the ability to turn data into clear insights and prioritised actions
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of marketplace supply and demand dynamics
- Experience in project management and working with cross-functional teams
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Growth mindset; persistent, proactive, and a hands-on problem solver
- AI-advocate who uses the latest tools and technologies to work smarter and faster
- Nice to have: experience in Home & Garden, Sports, or Kids categories
- Nice to have: ability to work with data beyond dashboards, such as Python and/or SQL
Benefits:
- Dedicated learning budget within the department for courses, conferences, or other learning opportunities
- Private sessions with experts through Likeminded for personal growth and mental health
- Internal workshops for skills development and cross-department collaboration
- Fully remote work setting
- Possibility to work from the Vienna office
- Flexible self-organization of working hours
- Office weeks three times a year with team-building events and on-site workshops
- Dog-friendly office
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