Category Planner - Central Hub (Maternity cover)
Key Skills
Job Description
About the role
As our Supply Chain Category Planner for Home Care, you'll drive the strategy and execution for your category management, optimising supply chain performance, stakeholder partnerships, and value creation. Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain Operations Central, you’ll own risk mitigation, and process improvement for the Category portfolio. You'll collaborate cross-functionally and manage a range of significant external partners to deliver availability, cost-efficiency, and seamless customer support.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver Category strategies, aligning with business targets for cost, quality, availability, and customer experience.
- Oversee demand forecasting, demand management, and supply performance for your Category
- Analyse category spends, identify opportunities for cost reduction, and drive continuous improvement.
- Monitor and optimise stock levels for your category across multiple sites, channels and markets, as well as resolving supply challenges and minimising excess and obsolete inventory.
- Ensure accurate and timely processing of supply chain transactions within SAP/S4 system data, and EDI integrations.
- Lead risk management efforts within the category, developing contingency plans to protect supply continuity and support business resilience.
- Track KPIs for category performance; report actionable insights to senior stakeholders and shape future strategy.
- Collaborate across teams (e.g. Service, Sales, R&D) to support new product launches, changes within the category range, and integration.
- Drive process improvements using Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent approaches to enhance category efficiency.
About you
To succeed in this role, you’ll bring:
- 5+ years' demonstrable experience in supply chain, category management of FG, components, or similar products.
- Strong analytical and commercial skills; confident using Excel (pivot tables, analytics) and supply chain systems (SAP/S4, EDI).
- Deep understanding of supply chain principles, procurement, demand planning, and external stakeholder management, ideally in a global context.
- Proven ability to deliver process improvements, cost savings, and category growth.
- Project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Outstanding communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with continuous improvement practices.
- Self-motivation, adaptability, and a proactive approach to solving problems and driving performance.
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Core Responsibilities
The Category Planner will drive supply chain strategy, demand forecasting, and risk mitigation for the Home Care category. They will collaborate cross-functionally to optimize stock levels, manage external partners, and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency.
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience in supply chain or category management with strong analytical skills. Proficiency in SAP/S4, EDI, and continuous improvement methodologies like Lean or Six Sigma is required.
About Dyson
Industry: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Dyson solves real-world problems and creates better products through the application of engineering, science, design and creativity. It is a family-owned, global technology company, founded by Sir James Dyson who remains at the helm alongside his son Jake. Since inventing the first cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner, the DC01, Dyson has consistently invested in research and development to improve its products and technologies radically. Dyson offers products across a growing range of areas: floorcare, air purification, robotics, haircare including formulations, lighting, hand drying, and most recently audio. Dyson continues to expand into new areas. Today, Dyson sells products in more than 80 markets, has 450 Dyson stores worldwide and is available in all major technology and beauty retailers. Dyson has global headquarters in Singapore and major technology campuses in Singapore, the UK, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Its global team of engineers, scientists and software developers are focused on developing technology-enabled products which work better and which people love to use. Key areas of focus have included high-speed electric digital motors, sensing and vision systems, robotics, machine learning and aerodynamics. Beyond products, to encourage an inventive future, Dyson is also inspiring the next generation of engineers and inventors through the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, the James Dyson Foundation and the James Dyson Award. The Dyson family applies its problem-solving approach in other fields, and established Dyson Farming in 2012. It is one of the largest farming businesses in the UK, extending to 36,000 acres across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. It is a family-owned enterprise unlike any other, focussed on long-term investment in British farming and the countryside to grow tasty and nutritious food.