Category Manager
Title:
Category Manager for new E-Commerce project
Сlassification:
Full time
Reports to:
Main responsibilities:
- Building the category strategy and execution plan
- Implementation and monitoring of the execution of the overall commercial strategy, category operational management in the region
- Assortment management of the category: assortment formation, quality control of filling the assortment matrix, ensuring quick entry of goods into the assortment, market analysis, monitoring of competitors
- Identification and Development of relationships with key brand and vendors
- Owning customer experience metrics and data quality
- Development of Private Brand in terms of assortment, product specifications, required product line, communication briefs and negotiations
- Determine development priorities, adoption and implementation of key decisions on the assortment, pricing, promotion, marketing, merchandising, branding, development of Private Brand to increase the effectiveness of the category
- Pricing management: control of price monitoring of competitors; making decisions on price changes; the formation of the basket of the Minimum Price in the Category , KVI, BB; initiatives and protection of proposals for changing the boundaries of price clusters; price management in IT systems; management of margins and price lists
- Process development, operational planning to support forecasting and new launches
- Cooperation with executive decision-makers, helping them to understand the brand, desired product positioning, key points of difference, and target customer
- Partnering closely with cross functional teams including the Softlines category teams, marketing, legal, finance, to deliver on goals
- Interfunctional interaction with related functions for the timely and uninterrupted replenishment of the inventory stocks of the management center for category profitability, inventory turnover and loss control
- The formation of the supply chain of the region
- Negotiating and concluding contracts with local suppliers on the amounts of the marketing budget and the conditions of the Promo
- Search for alternative suppliers for each product category
- Management of promotions in the category of planning, monitoring and control of the effectiveness of the conduct, including the control of balances at the end of the promo
Main requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, finance, or business administration;
- At least 3 years of experience in Procurement;
- Technical and commercial knowhow of commodity market trends and manufacturing process technologies of the category;
- Understanding of data analysis;
- Confident MS Office user (especially Excel)
- Optional SAP ERP, SAP BO
- Knowledge of the market in the region (main competitors, suppliers, regional assortment, etc.)
Skills:
- Analytical skills
- Strategic thinking
- Teamwork skills
- Organizing and planning skills
- Attention to details
- Multitasking skills
- Strong negotiation and communication skills
- Multitasking skills
- Ability to analyze a large amount of data, predict and develop a strategy for the short and long term
- Skills in decision making based on data or quantitative analysis
Languages:
- Russian – fluent
- Uzbek - fluent
- English – preferably
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