Assistant Category Manager

Job Description

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Ast Category Manager to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store “tMart”, which is the region’s first cloud store concept offering 30-minutedelivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Iraq!

What’s On Your Plate?

• Full Ownership over the category management role in terms of Assortments, Pricing, Offers and
• Supply.
• 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 by regular visiting the suppliers warehouse.
  Assortment:
• Monitoring the daily availability list and ensuring new seasonal items are regularly listed by the supplier.
• 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.
• Regular market visits to check the assortment available in the country and pushing our suppliers to source them for us.
   Price:
• Pricing the items based on Ministry pricing guidelines on a daily basis.
• 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.
• Analyzing 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 cross-functional projects at scale.
• You are very detail-oriented, and 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 make a customer delivery, or to take customer calls. No job is too insignificant, no detail is too small for you.
• You can interact with senior-level 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 hands-on with several tools.
• You have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be hands-on 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 in English mandatory & Arabic can be a plus