Job Description

Position Summary
Are you ready to drive innovation and leave your mark on the digital landscape? As an E-store Category Manager for Samsung Benelux, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the online experience for our Television and Audio products. This is more than just a role—it’s your chance to combine strategy, creativity, and customer-focused thinking to make an impact with one of the world’s most iconic brands. From crafting compelling product stories to optimizing the customer journey, you’ll play a key role in bringing our vision to life. Ready to take on the challenge and redefine what’s possible? Join us!
Role and Responsibilities  
How you make a difference
As a Category Manager at Samsung, you are fully responsible for managing your product group, covering both sales and operations. This includes pricing strategies, promotional plans, forecasting, and product launches, all while collaborating closely with various stakeholders. Success means hitting sales targets, achieving profit KPIs, and ensuring forecast accuracy, while also supporting the broader team’s goals.*Key Responsibilities: Product Marketing (40%)
The Category Manager determines and executes goals, prices and tactics of an E-store (Television & Audio) product category in line with the global and local guidelines. Coordinates the marketing strategies including product page, pricing, expense budgets, advertising, product launches and promotion plan. Determines and develops all product related marketing campaigns to achieve the commercial objectives, profit and brand awareness for the product group.* Report, Analyses and Forecast (30%)
Report status of the business plan, the progress and outlook on set goals & objectives on a regular basis. Creates deep dive segment analysis to have full insight into the marketing process. Analyzes market data (such as GFK) and presents the marketing plan/strategic plan.* Product Availability & Logistics (20%)
Maintains an optimal availability and optimal stock levels of the assigned Samsung product portfolio to have enough products to be sold directly to customers. Support the logistics and service issues, in line with the relevant policies, to determine a solid after sales process for an E-store (Television & Audio) product category.* Stakeholder management (10%)
Works and communicates efficiently with own team and other departments: (Television & Audio) Sales & Marketing division, Corporate Marketing, Logistics, Legal, Customer Service and Finance.
Your team
As a Category Manager, you’ll be part of a dynamic team of six (three Category Managers, two Supply Chain Managers, and a lead) within the Televisions and Audio team. You’ll collaborate with various teams across the E-Store organization and service operations to drive success across the Benelux region, requiring strong teamwork and frequent virtual meetings.
Skills and Qualifications  
What are your assets  
As our new Category Manager, you bring a strategic mindset and expertise in e-commerce and customer experience. You excel in product marketing, forecasting, and analytics, while your strong project management and attention to detail ensure success. Your excellent communication, collaboration, and flexibility make you a valuable team player with a commercial focus.  
We also request:* A completed HBO or WO master's degree in Commercial Economics, Business Administration, Marketing, E-commerce, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
* Minimal 5 years of relevant experience in category management or in a similar role.
* Experience in e-commerce is a plus.
* A good command of the Dutch and English language at a professional level.
* Skilled in using MS Office (Excel) and Power BI
  
What’s in it for you?* Competitive compensation & benefits package to reward you for your work in supporting our company to grow. Including health insurance, 100% reimbursed by Samsung, 6% personal contribution to pension and an internet allowance of €29.42 per month.
* Bonus system where you can earn an extra monthly salary per quarter.
* A position for 40 hours a week.
* A company (lease)car
* 25 vacation days + Good Friday and the possibility to buy 5 extra vacation days.
* Telephone from Samsung with unlimited calling and 10GB data, within the EU and a Laptop of Samsung.
* Working hybrid with at least 3 days in the office, so you can optimize your workflow and enjoy the best of both worlds.
* The possibility to use the company restaurant, where you can enjoy an extensive lunch for a competitive price and even freshly prepared evening meals by our Samsung chef to take home every day. Discount on the purchase of Samsung products via our employee portal, up to a purchase amount of €2,500 per year
* Extensive Development, Health & Wellbeing programs (for example Samsung University, young talent & leadership programs, we have our own fitness on site, we have an online mental health portal, personal gym sessions which you can join and many more because we care about your development and wellbeing).
  
About us
Our story begins in 1969, when Samsung saw the light of day with the ambition to help people achieve the impossible. After more than 50 years, we are still innovating and creating boundless technology that helps people make the impossible possible. We remain driven by our purpose, which is why we put people and what they care about at the center of everything we create.
We do this by staying true to our global values.* Human experiences (We put people first, at the center of everything we do).
* Progressive Innovation (We are constantly finding new ways to improve the way people live by creating inventive products and services).
* Rebellious Optimism (We challenge ourselves and the status quo to change the world).
* Integrity & transparency (We always strive to do the right thing by being open and honest with our customers and partner ecosystem).
* Social improvement (We believe that technology should benefit everyone. It should be accessible, sustainable and used for good).
Ready to drive innovations as our next Category Manager? Join us and make an impact, apply today!