Job Description

Assistant Go to Market Manager

London

Currys London Campus at Waterloo

Fixed Term Contract 6 Months

Full Time

Grade 3

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

The role drives the team to ensure we are focusing on the Big Three Priorities: 

1-Capable & Committed Colleagues 

2-Easy to shop 

3-Customers for life 

Positioned within the commercial team, you will be right in the centre of a fast paced team, working hand in hand with the buying team, building strong relationships with our biggest suppliers and working closely with all other functions across the Currys business to build, plan and execute the customer and commercial strategy and develop our business for future growth. 

This exciting role within the New Business commercial team reports to the Senior Go to Market; you will help support developing the category strategy blue for the category squad. Combining customer and competitor insight along with financial imperatives to ensure the category squad develops a strategy to both maximise CSAT and EBIT. The role will act as a lynchpin between all functional representatives in the squad, pulling together annual, quarterly and in-season initiatives and activities to maximise performance. You will also arm the category buyer to negotiate adequate supplier funding support. 

You will need to have good relationship building skills, working closely with the Commercial buying team, Central Planning, Brand and Marketing team, Online team, Services Team and Retail operations and use your influencing skills to secure support to drive the business forward.  

Commercial acumen is a must as you will be required to support our analysis of trading performance, providing recommendations of actions to drive our business. Our ideal candidate will be organised and self-motivated in order to prioritise their work whilst having strong attention to detail to ensure everything is right first time. 

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to kickstart their career. It is ideal for a candidate who is passionate, organised and has an interest in Technology. Someone who is ambitious and wants to develop their career within a key category for the business. 

Role overview:

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Support the Senior GTM/GTM manager to ensure the squad adequately understands the category landscape, including customers, competitors, trends, financial performance, range performance, threats and opportunities, to support the development of the annual category strategy
• Support the Senior GTM/GTM Manager to create the blueprint for the annual category strategy, helping define the guiderails for: target KPIs (CSAT, share, EBIT, stock), customer shopping journey, category proposition and the ‘go to market’ plan
• Work with the Senior GTM/GTM manager and the central planning and brand & marketing function to develop in line with the annual events calendar the ‘Go to market’ strategy and plan for the category, supporting all briefs required for its execution.
• Support the squad in landing all major initiatives, including major new product launches, new merchandising solutions and changes to the customer journey online and in-store, liaising with relevant supporting departments to deliver right first time.
• Bringing appropriate analytics and insight from the online and customer team to support decision making related to day to day trading, events and promotions and range changes to ensure the category are making relevant data driven decisions and plans
• Co-ordinate responses to major marketing briefs across the category in appropriate templates including TV deals, home page nominations, deal lists, CRM requirements, overarching promotions e.g. trade in
• Work with peer groups to lead cross-functional delivery for all things related to customer journey including PoS, Ticket and online execution briefs.

You will need:

• Good numerical and analytical skills to review data and provide recommendations/actions plans to drive sales, profit and cash 
• Good planning, organisational and multitasking skills 
• Can Do Attitude  
• Inter-personal and communication skills, capable of working cross functionally to achieve the desired results 
• Customer champion with excellent commercial awareness and understanding of customer needs 
• Good working knowledge of SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word and PowerPoint as well as MS Office workflow tools 
• Experience of working to deadlines 
• Good presentation and speaking skills 

Qualifications: 

• Educated to degree standard or equivalent. 
• Marketing/Merchandising/Retail/Business Degree.

We know our people are the secret to our success. That's why we're always looking for ways to reward great work. You'll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• Performance related bonus
• Competitive pension scheme
• Product discounts on the latest tech
• A range of wellbeing initiatives

Why join us:

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email careers@currys.co.uk and we'll do our best to help.