Category Planner

**Career Development & International Exposure**

Gain comprehensive training and hands-on experience across key areas like market analysis, product development, buying, creative, and demand planning. As Singapore's first program in furniture and home furnishing retail, this unique opportunity prepares you to become a well-rounded Category Planner, equipped with international market insights for a successful retail career.

**At the end of the program, you will be assigned to a Category Management position with these key responsibilities**:

- Set and manage category revenue targets while analyzing market trends, customer needs, and competitive activities to drive profitability and enhance category strategies. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to category performance and product success.
- Oversee the full product development process by collaborating with designers, buyers, quality assurance, and supply chain teams to ensure timely and successful launches.
- Curate and implement category strategies that incorporate strategic demand planning and supply-side dynamics for optimal performance.
- Establish and maintain a revenue management approach, ensuring consistent pricing and promotional tactics that foster long-term profitable growth across various markets.
- Act as a key stakeholder to ensure that sales forecasts align with product launches, marketing campaigns, and other demand drivers.
- Ensure that reporting and analytics translate into actionable insights, identifying risks and opportunities to optimize our product mix effectively.

**To succeed in this program, here are the key requirements you'll need**:

- Ideally 2-4 years of experience in product development, category management or related roles, with a foundational understanding of the buying or product design and development process. Experience in industrial design or e-commerce/furniture retail is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic growth environment, with strong attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills.
- Proactive, "can-do" mentality with a proven track record of executing strategies successfully.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and build vendor relationships.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English; proficiency in Chinese is an advantage due to the need to collaborate with Chinese-speaking teams and third-party vendors/partners.
- Willingness to travel when business needs arise (~20%).

**What we promise**

**Our first promise - the ride of a lifetime**

You'll be joining a company in its most exciting phase; we've proven our product market fit, and with the growing online penetration of furniture, we're now focused on hypergrowth. You'll have a front-row seat in witnessing the growth of our customer-base and organisation at a global-level.

**Our second promise - a place to thrive**

We're building a company that has people as one of the company's core pillars for success. It's our mandate to help every employee perform to their highest potential so that they can do the very best work of their lives here, at Castlery.

We're committed to our employees' growth, and continuously strive to ensure our employees are set up for success through their journey, starting with an excellent onboarding experience, and carrying over into emphasis on personal and professional development.

Castlery strives to maintain a psychologically safe, transparent, and flexible work environment to enable our people can perform at their best level and believes in partnering our employees to raise that level as they grow with us.