Manager, National Category

About Us
Covetrus is a global animal health technology and services company dedicated to advancing the world of veterinary medicine. We have a long history of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence in customer service to our vet and veterinary practice clients. Provet has over 40 years in the ANZ market and has leading positions in the distribution market, and is a fully owned subsidiary of Covetrus.

The Role 

We are currently seeking an experienced Manager, National Category to join our Sydney based team on a permanent basis and oversee our Category Management team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a strong leader to manage and execute our ANZ category management strategy across product categories for the Australian & NZ animal health market.

Your main responsibilities will include – 

• Ensuring best cost and appropriate product ranging, optimisation of product positioning, support of private label strategy and top supplier relationship management as well as select business development opportunities.
• Actively seeking to identify, develop and deliver business opportunities and secure new commercial agreements with vendors to deliver increased revenue and gross margin resale opportunities whilst balancing security of supply, working capital requirements, and optimised product ranging.
• Ensuring full compliance for all regulatory and legislative requirements pertaining to the procurement of products.
• Ownership of pricing controls (Cost & List Price) with final approval for price setting to deliver optimised inner margin and commercial flexibility (MOQs, Right of Return, etc).
• Managing the Supplier Management Process, including implementation of formal quarterly business reviews for strategic suppliers and KPI monitoring and reporting.

About You

To be successful you will have;

• Tertiary qualifications.  Ideally in Veterinary / Agricultural Science, Accounting / Commerce, Marketing, Supply Chain Operations.
• A proven track record (7yrs+) of leading teams within a Category Management function ideally within Animal Health, Retail, FMCG or Pharmaceutical environments.
• Demonstrated proficiency with data analytics, statistics and forecasting.
• Demonstrated experience managing category planning, supplier management, and risk compliance activities.
• Excellent business acumen and an understanding of the inter-relationships between each Function, some sales experience preferred.
• Effective negotiating skills and the ability to network and influence people.

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 (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. 

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.