Mighty Ape
1 month ago
Category Manager - Gaming
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Company information
- Company
- Mighty Ape
- Location
- New Zealand New Zealand
- Posted
- 1 month ago
Job description
Description
The Category Manager - Gaming owns the end-to-end commercial performance, profit and loss (P&L responsibilities), and market share growth of the Gaming portfolio across Mighty Ape and Kogan.com, spanning console hardware, physical and digital software, gaming accessories, peripherals, PC gaming and digital currency.
Gaming is a launch-driven, allocation-constrained, and fiercely competitive category where success depends on maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, having strong commercial nous, understanding the operational rhythm of the industry, being able to strategize and execute, and most importantly maximising attach-rate economics across the hardware-software-accessory-digital ecosystem.
Operating with an owner's mindset, this is a commercial role suitable for an experienced Category Manager or Category Buyer looking for their next challenge. The Category Manager sets the strategic direction for the Gaming category, leads top-to-top relationships with global platform holders and distributors, and provides mentorship and trading guidance to the Junior Category Manager - Gaming and Category Coordinator. The primary mission is to defend and extend Mighty Ape's position as New Zealand's destination for gamers, while unlocking incremental growth through the Kogan.com channels and future Australian expansion.
Requirements
Essential
The Category Manager - Gaming owns the end-to-end commercial performance, profit and loss (P&L responsibilities), and market share growth of the Gaming portfolio across Mighty Ape and Kogan.com, spanning console hardware, physical and digital software, gaming accessories, peripherals, PC gaming and digital currency.
Gaming is a launch-driven, allocation-constrained, and fiercely competitive category where success depends on maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, having strong commercial nous, understanding the operational rhythm of the industry, being able to strategize and execute, and most importantly maximising attach-rate economics across the hardware-software-accessory-digital ecosystem.
Operating with an owner's mindset, this is a commercial role suitable for an experienced Category Manager or Category Buyer looking for their next challenge. The Category Manager sets the strategic direction for the Gaming category, leads top-to-top relationships with global platform holders and distributors, and provides mentorship and trading guidance to the Junior Category Manager - Gaming and Category Coordinator. The primary mission is to defend and extend Mighty Ape's position as New Zealand's destination for gamers, while unlocking incremental growth through the Kogan.com channels and future Australian expansion.
Requirements
Essential
- Significant category management, buying, or trading experience (typically 7+ years), with a track record of full P&L ownership.
- Demonstrated success negotiating with global vendors, platform holders, or major distributors - including allocations, rebates, and exclusives.
- Advanced analytical capability, including strong Excel modelling and confidence working with data from core business systems.
- Deep knowledge of the gaming ecosystem - platforms, release cycles, pre-order dynamics, and the communities that drive them.
- Experience in gaming, consumer electronics, or fast-moving online retail.
- Experience mentoring or developing junior commercial talent.
- Exposure to marketplace or trans-Tasman retail operations.
Required skills
- consumer electronics
- execution
- negotiation
- mentorship
- new zealand
- gaming
- strategy
- p&l
- commercial acumen
- distributors
- marketplace
- category management
- supplier relationships
- peripherals
- allocations
- strategic direction
- business systems
- release cycles
- market share
- analytical capability
- online retail
- ecosystem
- rebates
- category buyer
- digital software
- excel modelling
- digital currency
- attach rate
- console hardware
- physical software
- gaming accessories
- pc gaming
- owner's mindset
- platform holders
- trading guidance
- junior category manager
- category coordinator
- kogan.com
- australian expansion
- global vendors
- exclusives
- gaming ecosystem
- pre-order dynamics
- trans-tasman retail
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