About the Role
As a Category Manager, you will work closely with the sales team to execute the category strategy for the French and Belgium markets. This role is strongly execution- and operations-focused, ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of promotions, pricing, content, and category setup. You will collaborate with cluster leadership and central teams, playing a key role in performance tracking, shop execution, and daily category steering. This position is ideal for analytical, structured, and hands-on individuals who enjoy driving impact through excellent execution while contributing to category strategy and commercial discussions.
Responsibilities
- Support the definition and execution of the annual category and promo plan.
- Own the operational implementation of promotions.
- Coordinate with CRM, Shop Operations, Graphics, and central teams for high-quality campaign execution.
- Ensure correct implementation of banners, landing pages, category pages, and product selections.
- Proactively follow up on open actions, tickets, and execution topics.
- Prepare and execute local price change requests within the global pricing framework.
- Monitor competitor actions, pricing, and price indices on key brands and products.
- Drive price analyses, impact tracking, and decision material preparation.
- Maintain the promo plan overview and track budget usage.
- Monitor campaign and promo performance.
- Prepare post-promo analyses and performance summaries.
- Support short-term tactical promo actions.
- Own the operational quality of category presentation in the shop.
- Coordinate with Product and Shop Operations on sorting rules, filters, upsell, and cross-sell logic.
- Ensure strong visibility and correct execution of Own Brands.
- Regularly QA category pages and fix content, navigation, or presentation issues.
- Monitor and maintain regular performance tracking on Net Sales, Margin, Promo Spend, Key brands and categories, Availability and stock issues, Customer and product KPIs.
- Analyze deviations vs plan and prepare clear summaries and action proposals.
Requirements
- Relevant experience in e-commerce, retail, FMCG, or a similar commercial environment.
- Strong analytical skills and high confidence working with data, Excel, and reporting tools.
- Very structured and reliable way of working with strong attention to detail.
- Hands-on, proactive, and comfortable managing many parallel operational topics.
- Good communication skills and confidence working with multiple stakeholders.
- Strong ownership mindset for execution quality and follow-up.
- Fluent in English.
- French is a strong plus.
Skills
- Excel
- Reporting tools
- Data analysis
- E-commerce
- Retail
- FMCG
Location
- Munich
- Madrid
- Krakow
- Wroclaw
- London
- Vienna
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Contract
Experience Level
- Individual Contributor (Expert)
- 07
Salary/Compensations
- PLN 52700 - PLN 64000
Benefits
- Development opportunities
- Training and support
- Wellbeing offers
- Subsidised transport
- Bike leasing
- 20% discount on all products
- Option to work abroad for 20 days
About the Company
- With over 25 years’ experience, trailblazers in the pet e-commerce industry.
- Solutions make over 12 million customers genuinely happier.
- Work together to continually adapt, embracing change and challenges.
- A place where potential meets passion for pets.
Equal Opportunity
- At zooplus, we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential.
- We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.
