Category Manager Associate (Account Manager)

Ankorstore partners with brands to grow their wholesale business through simple, efficient, and cost-effective ways to connect with independent retailers, process orders and handle logistics.

In order to deliver the best experience possible to the retailers, we need to accompany those brands through a best in class account management. That's the mission of the French Brand Success Team, that is responsible for managing and growing brands available on Ankorstore.

As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the Category Managers and Head of Sales to drive growth within a specific category.

Your Sales mindset will be central in your position as you'll be responsible for the business growth of your category.

The team values collaboration, curiosity, and a customer-centric approach to achieve exceptional results in the ever-evolving e-commerce landscape.

As a Category Manager Associate, you will be the engine behind the growth of a dedicated portfolio of brands. You will report to a Category Manager and focus on one goal: increasing the B2B sales of your category.

• Portfolio Management: Own a portfolio of brands to help them grow their B2B sales.

• Identify and nurture brands with potential within your category "unlock" them through coaching on their pricing, catalog, and wholesale strategy.

• Maintain and nurture a close relationship with top brands driving overall GMV and impacting your category's gross margin.

• Commercially animate the category (event preparation, offers, promoting new feature adoption, etc.).

• Ensure a high brand satisfaction rate and minimize churn.

• Build and present regular updates on the performance of the category.

• Report on the impact of the latest actions taken within the category.

• Share your perspective on what needs to be done to grow your category business.

• Contribute to the evolution of our value proposition - Be proactive in suggesting continuous product improvements.

• Collect and synthesize customer feedback to inform our product roadmap.

• Work closely with Product & Tech teams for the continuous improvement of the category (search, ranking, offer management, etc.).

• Look around and visit our website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and Welcome to the Jungle

• Read about us in the media: How to build a 2 million unicorn in under 3 years, Rewild Retail, Ankorstore is shaping the shopping of the future, Mary Portas & Ankorstore

Ankorstore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We don't discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

• A first successful experience (Internship or 1-3 years) in Sales, Business Development, or Account Management (Marketplace or SaaS experience is a huge plus).

• You are based in Paris or can get to Paris easily (we will require somebody to be in the office 4 days per week to foster team spirit and fast learning)