Category Manager

'Print Smarter, Grow Faster'.

At Everest, we are all about people. We work with our clients and candidates to build great relationships so we can match the right person to the right role.

Here’s our latest opportunity!

The Business
MEA is a growth engine for the photo and retail industry. Our clients’ unique ad-tech and e-commerce solutions help photo-labs grow and drive customers into stores. Over 21,000 stores and photo labs in 11 countries are live on MEA's technology platform. MEA owns photo printing apps including ‘Photo Prints+’, ‘Photo Prints Now’ and ‘Printicular’. MEA services customers worldwide and is based in New Haven, CT, USA and New Zealand.

MEA also helps brands reach customers using digital innovation. They have released hundreds of native app, website and marketing projects with millions of users globally. Specifically, through CVS, Walgreens and WALMART. Due to this increase in demand and the senior leadership teams desire to be bigger and better, we are ready to carefully select MEA’s new Category Manager based in their Hamilton office.

The Opportunity
As MEA’s Category Manager you will have responsibility for end-to-end oversight of product categories, product territories and other product groupings as required. Collaborating closely with advertising, marketing, product design and technology teams at MEA, you will expand and grow categories through analysis of market data.

The Category Manager’s main purpose is to create revenue and overall market growth of their specific category. You’ll know how to provide the right product, at the right price, in the right place and at the right time.

Customer retention is a huge piece to this role, you will regularly and repeatedly engage with your customer through your category products. Creating a partnership model for your customers, stakeholders and partners through fulfilment and delivery. You will develop frameworks to research and analyse the needs of your customers for current and future experiences.

About you
Our client, MEA are on the look out for a commercially savvy Category Manager who is driven by growth and can see the big picture. This is a hands-on role; you will be used to working in niche markets and have exposure to out of the box products. An entrepreneurial mindset will do well in this role, someone who doesn’t mind being on the tools to get the best results for their clients and consumers.

You will have a strong understanding of the digital world and have plenty of experience in e-commerce, retail, digital campaigns, and google analytics. 

Looking for a role that will get you out of bed in the morning? Apply now!

For a confidential chat, please call Rachel Knox at Everest People on 027 238 0031.