About The Role
At GSF Car Parts, our Category Programme team play a crucial part in the development of our product offering across our multiple sales channels. As a Support Product Manager you will be responsible in ensuring that the category and business objectives are achieved for this area reporting into the Programme Manager.
- The programme team covers multiple category areas including:
Oil and Automotive Fluids (Coolant, Adblue, Screen wash etc)
Consumables (Additives and workshop dry consumables)
Accessories and Performance parts
- Electric vehicle specific parts
For the right individual, this role offers a career in a multi-site, national organisation, giving the opportunity for personal growth and development. We pride ourselves in a culture of encouraging our people to work together and develop relationships that help all of us to succeed.
With our aim to be a flexible employer, this role offers hybrid office and home working.
Main Duties – Supporting the Programme manager/Programme team on the below:
- Developing and defining the brand strategies within each of the categories which consider the market size, suppliers, competition, market share, growth and trends within the marketplace that will increase sales, profit and market share. To ensure that our product offer and buying terms are optimised
- Supporting the branches and functional departments with product queries.
About You
The successful candidate will have experience in commercial procurement, and/or marketing, ideally within the automotive aftermarket, or FMCG environment.
What you'll need to succeed:
- Knowledge of product management
- Ability to act on own initiative
GSF Car Parts is one of the UK’s leading automotive parts distributors, supplying thousands of independent garages throughout the UK and Ireland with parts, tools, garage equipment and specialist training. The group has over 175 branches nationwide and a turnover exceeding £475 million. Built on the heritage and success of a dozen local brand identities acquired over several years, we have traded as one brand since November 2021. Our branch network is bolstered by centralised support and expertise from specialist departments in key areas such as procurement and supply chain, marketing and national accounts. The business also benefits from integrated IT systems, which include our industry leading catalogue system, Allicat, and access to the Group's national garage programme, Servicesure. #INDGSF
