Senior Category Manager, Home - Bedding UK/EU
Hybrid (London / Madrid / Berlin)full-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Regional Senior Category Manager for Bedding (UK/EU) responsible for end-to-end merchandising, regional strategy, assortment, trading performance, and cross-functional execution to scale Quince’s bedding category in international markets.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end merchandising for the Bedding category across UK/EU including assortment execution, launches, and performance tracking
- Execute regional merchandising strategy in partnership with US Product Merchandising and international regional merchandising peers
- Contribute to product ideation, helping shape new product opportunities and business cases
- Work cross-functionally with Product and Regional Merchandising, Planning, Marketing, Technical Design, and Sourcing to deliver successful product launches—balancing inventory, go-to-market execution, and product quality (fit, sizing, and margin)
- Analyse trading performance (sales, returns, margin) and take ownership of actions to improve results
- Support pricing and assortment decisions for the region
- Own product catalogue management and administration, including product setup, data accuracy, and system maintenance
- Build site merchandising strategy, including PDP improvements roadmap and customer journey optimisations
- Monitor ratings, reviews, and returns to identify and support product quality improvements
- Manage regional product samples and merchandising assets
- Maintain merchandising reports, tools, trackers, and pricing files
- Take ownership of evaluating regional product compliance requirements and partner with Sourcing and Quality teams to execute
Qualifications
- 8-10 years of retail buying or category experience in Home Textiles / Bedding, with demonstrated ownership of category performance
- E-commerce and/or DTC experience, with exposure to both startup and established (blue-chip) brands preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferred
- Strong product awareness, with a commercial mindset and attention to detail
- Product obsessed, with experience leveraging data tools and external sources to drive results
- Critical eye to anticipate customer needs (both the “science” and “art” of retail merchandising)
- Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to inform trading and merchandising decisions (e.g. sales, margin, return rates)
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in both executional and strategic support roles
- Experience working cross-functionally with teams such as Planning, Design, Sourcing, or Marketing
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with particular ability to influence through concise written narrative
- Motivated by working in a fast-paced collaborative environment, where flexibility to stretch into or out of functional comfort zones is crucial for team success
- Adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity and change
Skills
Required:Merchandising strategyData-driven decision makingCross-functional collaborationProduct lifecycle management
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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