Category Manager

Job DescriptionFull 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 company's 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 execution 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.