Do you love food and are ready for a career where people are at the center? At City Gross, everything we do is about helping and inspiring our customers to live better lives. Our heart beats a little extra for fresh produce and we believe in people. We believe we become better when we have different backgrounds and experiences. Whether you're showcasing freshly harvested vegetables, cutting the perfect piece of meat, ensuring shelves are always well-stocked, or creating campaigns that meet our customers' needs, everyone here is here for one reason: to create an amazing customer experience.
About the job
About the job: The position is: Permanent employment at 40 hours per week, probation period applies.
Start date: September 1, 2026 or by agreement.
Location: Hässleholm, City Gross Support Office
The Category Manager Role
As a Category Manager, you have overall responsibility for developing and driving your categories with a focus on sales, profitability, and customer experience. The work is both strategic and operational involving assortment, pricing, campaigns, and space with full profit responsibility. In this role, you have significant personal responsibility and work in a structured, process-driven manner – you initiate, drive, and follow up on work within your category with a holistic perspective. You collaborate closely with operations and other functions, where you are both demanding and engaged in leveraging the right competencies from your partners and ensuring delivery and results.
You will be part of our sales team with four other Category Managers within grocery, non-food, and special categories, and you report to the Head of Customer Offering for grocery and special. The position is based at our headquarters in Hässleholm, with on-site presence required at least three days per week.
What will you do?
Work with strategy and tactical planning for assortment, pricing, campaigns, and space.
Set requirements and collaborate with external parties regarding assortment, price levels, and campaign events.
Negotiate with suppliers.
Collaborate with operations developers to develop methods and procedures within your categories.
Use insights and analysis to develop the business within your areas of responsibility.
Monitor and improve key metrics.
Who are you?
We are looking for someone with a clear commercial focus and driven to develop the business. You work with strong customer focus and take a business-driven responsibility for your category and understand the store's and category's important role for the customer.
As a person, you have strong analytical abilities and make decisions based on data, insights, and follow-up. At the same time, you are a skilled negotiator who thrives in dialogue with suppliers and partners, where you always strive to create value for both the business and the customer. The role involves multiple collaboration areas both internally and externally.
We believe you:
Have relevant higher education in retail, economics, or equivalent
Have at least 5 years of experience from a similar role within FMCG
Experience working in a role involving assortment with full profit responsibility
Previous experience working with analysis
Have good experience working with business systems and analysis tools
If you want to know more about what the position entails, contact Fredrik Mattisson, [email protected]. We welcome your application as soon as possible, but for this position we will have a longer application period as it is during vacation time. This may mean it takes a bit longer for you to receive feedback on your application, as we will review applications on an ongoing basis after the summer. The application deadline is August 31, 2026. We only accept applications through our job pages.
To determine if you are the right person for us, our recruitment process includes both tests and interviews. We verify ID and conduct background checks for all recruitments. Read more: How to apply for a job at Axfood
Please note that during this recruitment process, we will not ask you to log in with your Bank ID or scan any QR code. For questions, contact Employee Support via the contact form.Do you love food and are ready for a career where people are at the center? At City Gross, everything we do is about helping and inspiring our customers to live better lives. Our heart beats a little extra for fresh produce and we believe in people. We believe we become better when we have different backgrounds and experiences. Whether you're showcasing freshly harvested vegetables, cutting the perfect piece of meat, ensuring shelves are always well-stocked, or creating campaigns that meet our customers' needs, everyone here is here for one reason: to create an amazing customer…
Přehled
Typ
job
Stav
active
Viditelnost
public
Město
Hässleholm
Adresa
Industrigatan 22
GPS
56.158722270672, 13.804500484208
Email
Zobrazení
13
Publikováno
24. 6. 2026
Upraveno
5. 8. 2026
Poloha
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Parametry
Kraj
Skåne län
Duration
na dobu neurčitou
Zaměstnavatel
City Gross Sverige AB
Postcode
28143
Počet míst
1
Profese
Kategorichef/Kategoriansvarig
Salary Type
pevná měsíční, týdenní nebo hodinová mzda
Scope Of Work
100–100 %
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