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Product Manager
Half Moon Bay
Reference: PM01
Looking for a job that’s a real catch?
Since 1882, Burnsco has been supplying New Zealanders with all things boating, fishing, and motorhome. With 18 retail stores nationwide, and growing, there are always opportunities for development!
We’re fishing for a Product Manager with a strong knowledge of product lifecycles to join our Product Team at our Support Office in Half Moon Bay. Previous experience in buying/category management would be preferred but is not essential.
This is a key role that works closely with both external and internal stakeholders and provides a critical link between product, sales, marketing and inventory management to ensure we deliver on the customer’s requirements and the commercial return expectation. This role will have ownership on specific category ranges, lifecycle, and end of life management for all products.
As a crucial member of the team, you will ensure we meet and exceed both our internal and external targets on sales and stock obsolescence.
Why join us?
- Uncapped monthly bonus scheme
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Generous team discount on all Burnsco and Jaycar Electronics (our parent company) products
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Fuel Discounts
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Free EAP Support (Employee Assistance Program)
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RV Rental Subsidy
- Club Membership Subsidy
- Comprehensive ongoing internal and external training for career development
- In-depth onboarding process and tailored career progression for a stable future
About you:
To be successful in this role, you'll need to have an in-depth understanding of Category Management, ideally in speciality retail. You'll love working in a fast-paced environment, with a methodical, logical and patient approach. You will be highly competent in Microsoft Office suite, with a keen eye for detail and high degree of accuracy. Our people are our business, so the ability to relate to a diverse range of people at all levels is important. Using your excellent communication skills, you will be focused on gaining respect and trust across the business, to deliver exceptional outcomes for our customers.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Management of all stock items in our system to ensure we meet the given SLA’s and KPI’s, both internal and external
- Weekly stock analysis to understand weeks of inventory and forecasting of all products to determine future purchasing.
- Understand and share monthly overview of aged inventory and stock risk.
- Develop and provide lifecycle management and clearance recommendations to the product and sales teams to activate.
- Maintain stock data integrity including planning and have a good understanding at the status of stock in the group
- Provide monthly reporting to track stock against defined KPI’s such as weight of stock, days cover in channel and warehouse, aged stock risk profile, instock availability including reporting and action plans on any variance.
- Suggest new products for the range and work with relevant product managers to build pricing and samples to present to customers.
- Develop and assist to implement channel marketing programs to change behaviour and sales mix to achieve defined KPI’s.
- Work with operations, web, marketing and product teams to introduce new products and manage lifecycles.
As we are not an accredited employer through Immigration NZ we cannot accept any applications for those who need visa support
Ready to chart your new course?
Complete our application form by visiting the "Jobs at Burnsco" section on our website or follow the link: https://www.burnsco.co.nz/job-application
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