Job vacancy Tech Data Corporation - European Category manager - job vacation at Barcelona, Spain

Tech Data is one of the world’s largest technology distributors. We help companies like HP, Apple, Cisco, Microsoft — and hundreds of others — bring their products to market, and we offer a wide range of technical and business support services.

We certify, train, instruct, and support our reseller customers and help configure, install, and finance their purchases. Many of the hardware devices and software applications that you use in your daily life have passed through our logistics centers on their way to the market. 

With Solutions For Every Business

Credit Services

Take your business further with flexible credit and reward programs and floorplan and leasing options. We offer education and training focused on the health of your business, including financing alternatives and cash flow management.

Marketing Services

Through Tech Data Agency’s resellerCONNECT program, we help solution providers generate leads that turn into sales. Target end-users with dynamic marketing and lead-generation campaigns, events, outbound marketing, SEO, and more aimed at increasing your visibility.

Education & Training

We provide tools and resources to assist you in building skills to sell and support solutions. Our goal is to help you solve complex training roadmaps, so you achieve higher levels of authorization and increase revenue.

Technical Services

We provide a wide variety of vendor-specific and cross-platform support to help you offer end-to-end solutions to your end-user customers. Benefit from highly-skilled, competitively priced assembly, configuration, customization, and installation of IT products to your specifications.

Tech Data is currently hiring the following:

European Category manager at Barcelona, Spain

Job Purpose:   

Vendor, Technology or Business Unit, Profit & Loss (P&L), commercial and operational ownership by collaborating with all relevant business functions to deliver best in class systems, tools, processes, financial data integrity, and reporting

Responsibilities:

• Execute the Business Unit strategy in full alignment with the agreed plan to grow profitable market share.
• Lead the vendor pricing strategy through collaboration with profit team to review price elasticity and handle exception management
• Collaborate with the Business Intelligence team to provide market reports and analysis, and using this data to identify trends to make sound business proposals
• Support the development of direct reports and/or development of divisional assistant category managers (ACM’s)
• Ownership for full product and vendor lifecycle management, including system accuracy, product adoption & creation and contract management
• Hold operational & commercial relationship with vendor key stakeholders
• Identification of commercial & operational process improvements
• Ensure ongoing use of CRM tools to ensure best in class business continuity
• Input into quarterly vendor business planning and execution.

Knowledge Skills and Experience

• Highly numerate
• Commercial acumen
• Strong communication skills
• Time management & prioritization skills
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Excellent analytical skills
• Good relationship skills
• Experience in the IT industry with a channel and/or vendor at a category management level, ideally from a finance, purchasing or product marketing background
• Knowledge of SAP R3 and business warehouse
• Strong Microsoft office skills
• Experience of working within a matrix structure
• Proven ability multi task in a fast paced environment
• Business planning experience with steady operational cadence

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If you are interested, please register online through the following page: Registration. 

Recruitment does not cost you anything, and only qualified applicants will be processed