Director, Category Management & Proprietary Brands

The Role
Covetrus is a global animal health technology and services company dedicated to advancing the world of veterinary medicine. Provet is part of Covetrus as the premier leading veterinary distributor across Australia and New Zealand and brings a long history of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence in customer service to our vet and veterinary practice clients.

We are currently seeking a category management and product leader to join our Sydney team at Erskine Park in the newly created role of Director – Category Management & Proprietary Brands. You will be an established business leader, responsible for setting and driving the category management strategy and ensuring best cost and appropriate product ranging for all categories across the ANZ region. You will also deliver accelerated growth through expanding existing and new categories, delivering profitable margins and by owning the new product development for the region.

Your responsibilities will include –

• Leading, developing and transforming a team of category management and product professionals to ensure we are agile and best placed to adapt to changing market conditions.
• Building and driving a high performing category management capability through the oversight of all types of product categories for the Australian & NZ domestic markets.
• Overseeing supplier competitive analysis, performance metrics, research techniques, sourcing strategies, risk mitigation and contract management.
• Proactively identify emerging opportunities with business partners to support category strategy execution.
• Developing and implementing the go-to market strategies to bring new products to market, identifying new markets for growth, and the analysis of new business opportunities.
• Liaising with Marketing to plan B2B marketing and communication with accountability for the development and introduction of new products.
• Engagement with the Sales teams to develop comprehensive communication strategies to maximize client engagement and adoption of private label (Proprietary Brands) products.
• Playing an active role as part of the APAC leadership group in determining strategic direction and providing leadership support across the business in executing the strategic plan.

About You

Ideally you will display –

• Demonstrated 10+ years within the animal health, human health and/or FMCG industry with a success record in leading and developing teams.
• Demonstrated influential leadership capabilities in stakeholder management to coordinate internal stakeholders and negotiate with external vendors.
• A strong track record in category management including demonstrated success in leading and transforming a category management function.
• Proven product and business development success in analysing markets, developing white label / generics product portfolios and launching these across multiple markets.
• A metrics-driven mindset and the ability to draw insights from complex data.
• Entrepreneurial skills to work in a rapidly changing, matrix style environment and the ability to effectively communicate, motivate and inspire cross-functional teams with professionalism.
• Strong commercial acumen to be able to translate strategic direction into operational plans.

Why Join Us?

At Covetrus, we’re proud of our family friendly culture and respectful workplace. We embrace diversity in our workforce and encourage applications from like-minded persons from all walks of life. Covetrus team members are eligible to access a suite of fantastic benefits, to help them look after themselves, their family and their beloved pets. These include –

• Generous discounts on our range of animal health food & enrichment products.
• Access to Perkbox/Boost apps for discounts on everyday shopping & amazing health & wellbeing resources.
• Additional leave benefits – annual birthday leave, paid parental leave, & the option to purchase additional leave.
• Flexible hybrid Work From Home options & dog-friendly offices (select roles and locations).
• Free 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program.
• Reward & recognition through our quarterly Values Awards and our Service Anniversary Awards.
• Professional development through our Leadership Development & Emerging Leadership courses.
• Access to annual flu vaccinations.
• Annual volunteer days.

Covetrus is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.