# Category Manager - Commercial Notebooks

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

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## Description

This role is responsible for product line management and contribution to defining business plans and growth strategies for commercial notebooks. You will collaborate with sales teams to ensure seamless execution of category plans while monitoring KPIs and sales performance.

**Responsibilities**

- Leads overall engagement with one or several sales teams with limited oversight from the manager in accordance with the organisation's policies and procedures.

- Contributes and actively participates in defining the category business plan and strategies to drive growth and profitability.

- Collaborates with various internal teams from marketing, sales, and finance to ensure seamless execution of category plans.

- Monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) and sales performance to identify areas for improvement and develops action plans accordingly.

- Demonstrates a deep understanding of product categories, business management, and sales challenges and strategies.

- Gathers and analyses customer feedback and data to understand customer needs, preferences, and pain points, and translates insights into actionable improvements.

- Builds relationships and represents the team at a senior level with the sales force and other partners.

- Holds responsibility for product line and quota management for a significant share of the product range or a specific customer segment.

- Oversees functional responsibilities in one or several areas such as market analysis, marketing engagement, etc.

- Leads the partnership engagements with external IT vendors.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary with performance-based incentives

- Market leader across PC and Print

- A wide and varied product portfolio

- Recognised globally as an Employer of Choice and certified as a Great Place to Work in New Zealand for the last 2 years consecutively

- Opportunity to make a difference to the community and to cultivate and encourage a diverse and inclusive culture through multiple business resource groups

- 4 hours of paid volunteering hours per month

- Variety of Wellness programs, including the opportunity to become a Mental Health First Aider

- Market Leading Mentoring Program and access to a wide range of free learning and training courses to accelerate career development

- Flexible work environment

- Supportive team culture

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## Skills

### Required
- product line management
- business planning
- growth strategies
- sales performance
- customer feedback analysis

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