# Consumer Area Category Manager

**Company**: HP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At HP, you'll have opportunities to learn, grow, develop, and shape your career while helping build a better world.

As Consumer Area Category Country Manager, you will own end-to-end product-line management and drive the growth and profitability of a defined part of HP's Consumer Personal Systems (CPS) portfolio across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Strategy & Business Planning: Shape the Consumer category business plan and growth strategy for DACH, identifying market opportunities and developing strategies to drive revenue and profitability.

- Product-Line Ownership: Manage the Consumer product portfolio end-to-end with P&L and quota accountability, including revenue, unit volume, and Owned Gross Margin (OGM).

- Cross-Functional Leadership: Work across Marketing, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Channel, Pricing, Business Management and Alliances to ensure seamless execution of category plans.

- Performance & Optimization: Monitor KPIs including sales performance, market share, inventory, OGM, sell-in and sell-through.

- Customer & Market Insights: Use customer feedback, market data, and competitive insights to understand consumer needs and identify opportunities to improve products, positioning, and go-to-market strategies.

**Qualifications and Skills:**

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Sales Administration, or a related field.

- 2-5 years of professional experience in category management, product/brand management, P&L management, or a related role.

- Strategic & analytical thinking with confidence working with sales figures, market research, KPIs, forecasts, and analytical tools such as Excel.

- Commercial acumen and understanding of revenue, unit volume, Owned Gross Margin, market share, inventory, and ROI.

- Excellent communication skills in German and English.

**What do we have to offer?**

- Employee-oriented corporate culture - our ' HP Way '

- A well-adjusted work-life-balance due to flexible working hours and home office regulations.

- Attractive salary package with additional benefits, such as 30 paid leave days, company pension plans, a long-term time account, bike leasing, employee counselling programs, wellness initiatives etc.

## Skills

### Required
- Strategic thinking
- Analytical thinking
- Commercial acumen
- Communication skills
- Collaboration and influencing skills

### Nice to have
- Category management
- Product/brand management
- P&L management

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