Job Description

Are you looking to work for a market-leading company within the healthcare sector? If so, Alliance Healthcare can offer you a great working environment with rewarding benefits and opportunities.

Up for grabs is wonderful opportunity for a Junior Category and Merchandising Manager within the Health & Beauty category. Working closely with the Commercial and Alphega teams, this role will support the development and delivery of the Health & Beauty Category offer and Alphega Pharmacy UK micro space planning strategy.

This role will drive profitable sales growth by providing best in market range selection, promotions and category advice to Alliance Healthcare customers, including maximising the effectiveness of the planograms and display solutions developed for our Alphega Pharmacy members.

You will support the execution of agreed supplier joint business plans and initiatives in conjunction with the H&B Commercial team, Customer Teams and Alphega Pharmacy and provide support to sales teams.

Working within the wholesale division, the Junior Category and Merchandising Manager will be responsible for managing the product life cycle and category database including identifying trends in the category and introduce/rationalise product as required. You will also manage the product life cycle and category database including identifying trends in the category and introduce/rationalise product as required.

About You

Ideally you will have experience of working with pharmacy customers and will have direct experience in micro space planning. The candidate will be numerate, articulate, detail-focussed and will have a good working knowledge of MS Office applications and Spaceman or similar space planning tools.

You will have the commercial acumen to recognise sales & margin issues and opportunities, have strong numeric and analytical skills with a high degree of attention to detail and strong organisational skills will be key for you!

If this is you in a nutshell, we can offer you a competitive salary and generous benefits package.

Once fully trained in the role you will be eligible for our Smart or Hybrid Working policy which offers you the chance to balance your time between the home and office.

About The Company

Alliance Healthcare is a leading distributor and wholesaler of pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products, serving over 16,200 pharmacies, hospitals and dispensing doctors throughout the UK on a twice daily basis.

We have an essential role to play in the medical supply chain and everything that we do as a company will ultimately impact upon the end user, the patient. It is our responsibility to offer a reliable service that ensures that our customers receive the right product, in the right place, at the right time.

Our diversity and inclusion vision is to create a culture where we value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to powering greater collaboration and innovation, inspiring us to help people across the UK lead healthier and happier lives

Alliance Healthcare