About the Position

Assistent Category Management / Einkauf Drogerie (m/w/d)

Location: Köln, NW, DE

Job-ID: 984911

Anstellungsart: Vollzeit

Bereich: Einkauf/Ware

Einstiegsart: Berufseinsteigende

Vertragsart: unbefristet

What We Aim to Achieve Together

Are you passionate about products and trends, enjoy strategic thinking, and can keep track of multiple topics at once? Then you'll fit right in with our team.

You can expect a diverse and dynamic range of drugstore products with strong brands and private labels, as well as high innovation and promotional dynamics. Together, we work on continuously developing our assortments based on our customers' needs, identifying relevant market and consumer trends early, and deriving concrete, revenue-generating measures for assortment and promotions.

The combination of assortment design, market and competitor observation, promotional business, and ensuring optimal product availability makes this position particularly dynamic and varied.

What You Will Achieve With Us

Active Participation: Together with our (Senior) Category Buyers, you will actively shape the drugstore assortment and support all sales line-specific, organizational, and administrative topics.
Assortment Development: You will continuously develop our assortments, identify relevant market and consumer trends domestically and abroad, evaluate their potential for our business, and derive new product ideas, assortment optimizations, and revenue-generating measures for our private labels and branded products.
Promotional Support: You will support the selection of suitable promotional articles based on relevant KPIs, evaluate their potential, and participate in planning attractive and high-revenue promotions. You will coordinate the measures and their timing with the relevant departments to ensure optimal integration of activities.
Responsibility: You will participate in supplier negotiations, support the planning and implementation of attractive marketing concepts, and ensure that our products are available at the right time and place together with our interfaces.
Data Management: Whether master data, conditions, listings, or sales and revenue-relevant key figures, you will ensure that our data is current, complete, and reliable.
Insights from Data: Through evaluations, analyses, and success controls, you will identify revenue and profit potentials, provide important decision-making bases, and support the targeted further development of successful measures.
Networking: As a central contact person, you will be in close exchange with internal teams such as our regional centers and quality assurance, as well as with our suppliers.

What Convinces Us

Your Personality: You work reliably, independently, and structured. You enjoy taking up new topics and trends and actively driving them forward. With your communication skills, organizational talent, and ability to get things done, you convince us. Team spirit, initiative, and a hands-on mentality complete your profile.
Education: A successfully completed commercial education or comparable qualification forms the basis for your entry with us.
Experience: At least three years of professional experience in the retail environment, ideally in purchasing or category management.
Technical Skills: You are proficient with MS Office, especially Excel. You are also familiar with warehouse management systems and can quickly familiarize yourself with new tools and processes.
Languages: Fluent German skills round out your profile.

What We Offer

The REWE GROUP, one of Europe's largest retail and tourism groups, offers unique conditions for all those who want to make a difference. Discover a people-oriented employer who gives you trust, enables scope for design, and promotes innovations and fresh ideas through flexible structures. Those who work with us and move a lot, can also expect a lot:

Attractive Compensation: With special benefits such as holiday and Christmas bonuses, asset-linked benefits, company pension scheme, subsidies for canteen and discounted Germany Ticket, as well as advantages for bicycle leasing.
Employee Discounts: At REWE, PENNY, toom Baumarkt, and DER Touristik.
Work-Life Balance: With flexible working hours without core times, home office, time-out models, company nurseries, modern parent-child offices, support in finding childcare and care, and personal development.
Health Management: With preventive examinations, sports, health, and cooking courses.
Scope for Design: Co-determination in the selection of algorithms, analysis techniques, and technologies, and independently working on exciting questions from various company areas (supply chain, logistics, marketing, customer service).
Agile Environment: Collaboration with agile development teams in the big data context.
Networked: Company-wide networks of the REWE GROUP, such as our LGBTIQ network "DITO – different together" and the women's network "f.ernetzt" for exchange on career and personal development.

Further information can be found at jobs.rewe-group.com.

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We expressly emphasize that all people are welcome with us - regardless of gender/gender identity, ethnic origin and nationality, social origin, religion/belief, physical and mental abilities, age, or sexual orientation or other individual characteristics.

Our Application Process

1. Your Online Application

With a click on "Apply Now" you're off. Upload your CV and any other required or optional documents in the application form and fill in the mandatory fields. After you have submitted your application, you will receive a confirmation of receipt.

2. Review of Your Application

As soon as your application has been received, it will be reviewed by the recruiting team and the responsible department. You will receive feedback shortly.

3. Invitation to Interview

If our feedback is positive, we will invite you to an initial introductory meeting. Depending on the position and department, a second interview may follow. In some cases, we combine the interview with a small technical or preparatory task - we will of course inform you in advance. For management positions, the selection process may also include an assessment center.

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FAQs About the Application

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Yes. You can apply for several suitable positions at the same time. The only thing that matters is that you submit a separate application for each position and think about which role suits you best.

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Required Documents:

A tabular CV with a clear presentation of your previous activities and professional experience
For an application for an apprenticeship, additionally your final certificate or the last two school certificates

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School, apprenticeship, internship, and work certificates
Proof of further education or training
A meaningful cover letter
A current and professional application photo

You can find the requirements you should meet for a specific position in the respective job description. For many of our positions, you are also welcome as a lateral entrant. We support you with a structured induction and various further training offers so that you can start successfully.

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