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Role Summary
Were looking for a Category Manager to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store tMart which is the regions first cloud store concept offering 30minutedelivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait UAE Qatar Jordan Bahrain Egypt Oman and Iraq!
Whats On Your Plate
Full Ownership over the category management role in terms of Assortments Pricing Offers and Supply.
Responsible for monitoring economic performance of the assigned departments /categories across sales gross margin profit and loss and consistency with the companys commercial strategy.
Ensuring proper implementation of the commercial strategy and strategic guidelines including categories plan and pricing strategy.
Providing input to the Ops team flows adjacencies tools and templates fixtures etc.
Reviewing and resolving any issues with local suppliers.
Assortment:
Ensuring cost efficiency across our consumers that meets their needs/wants.
Defining and maintaining the local assortment and integrating the basic assortment for the
department/categories.
Providing regional teams with information regarding products and quantities needed for
international and regional contracts.
Selecting local suppliers negotiating and purchasing in line with expected needs guided by
standards such as cost price discounts rebates payment terms discounts etc.
Price:
Pricing the items based on pricing guidelines and recommended prices for PL/Imported items.
Collecting market prices and conducting country price audits.
Promos:
Identifying local promo products and pricing each item and submitting forecasting/relevant
reordering information to replenishment.
Developing the country promotion calendar.
Following up and ensuring effective of all activities required for each promotional event.
Analysing and providing inputs for more effective promotional activities such as consumer
preferences local competitors and trends.
Qualifications :
What Did We Order
You have at least 5 years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple product
categories matured by working for large retailers (FMCG) in an international setting.
You have built teams and led crossfunctional projects at scale.
You are very detailoriented structured and know how to prioritize you consider yourself as someone who
delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.
You are willing to do anything necessary for the project to succeed including working on the warehouse
floor when you are short staffed to making a customer delivery or to take customer calls. No job is too
insignificant no detail is too small for you.
You are able to interact with seniorlevel executives and can manage the expectations of multiple
stakeholders. You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on
the job. You have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be handson with
several tools.
You have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be handson with several tools.
Additionally you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and
stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
Language skills: Fluent English and Arabic would be highly advantageous
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
