Category Manager - Beds & Pressure Area Care

The Company:

A global market leading manufacturer and distributor of healthcare Equipment and devices
A very well established company seeing exponential growth
Fantastic career opportunity
The Role:

Category Manager – Beds & Pressure Area Care

To assist in the growth of the International Beds and Pressure Area Care product range
Support products through management of the full product life cycle including new concept generation, life cycle management and end of life product cessation strategies.
The category manager will manage product pricing strategies in line with market needs, will support the external and internal sales team as required and will ensure that there is sufficient stock to support product sales

Provide full category oversight and management for all Beds and Pressure Area Care and associated products with a focus on the international heath sectors
Identify new product opportunities, define the commercial position and build strategies to take viable products through the development process.
Reducing underperforming products; if commercially viable develop existing product to increase sales to plan. Underperforming products to be removed from the range, minimising any stock right off and ensuring that product support is in place for existing products
Managing the pricing strategy for all products within category under management, in line with buying/manufacturing costs, market and competitor pricing.
Work with the sales team to fully understand market trends across international, competitor activities and product requirements.

The category manager will on average spend 1 days per week in the market with customers/sales people and competitors and 4 days per week on category planning.
The Ideal Person:

This role is for a highly organised individual with a Medical Devices background
The successful candidate will likely have at least 3 years’ experience as a category/product manager within a role where the full scope of category/product management tasks were undertaken
It would be advantageous for the successful candidate to have experience of selling/marketing into international markets
The successful candidate will have experience of delivering product marketing strategies and plans
This role is for a highly organised individual with a high level of medical devices market understanding and foresight, ideally on an international basis- but not essential
Consultant: David Gray

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Candidates must be eligible to work and live in the UK.

About On Target

At On Target, we specialise in sales, technical and commercial jobs in the Engineering, Construction, Building Services, Medical & Scientific, and Commercial & Industrial Solutions sectors, enabling our consultants to become experts in their market sector. We place all levels of personnel, up to Director across the UK and internationally