Assistant Category Manager

Experience

5 - 7 years

Job location

Al Kuwait - Kuwait

Education

Any graduation

Nationality

Any nationality

Gender

Not mentioned

Vacancy

1 vacancy

Job description

Roles & responsibilities

Role summary: We're looking for an Assistant 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-minute delivery 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 of the category management role in terms of assortments, pricing, offers, and supply. Ensuring proper implementation of the commercial strategy and strategic guidelines, including category plans and pricing strategy. Providing input to the operations team on flows, adjacencies, tools and templates, fixtures, etc. Reviewing and resolving any issues with local suppliers by regularly 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 and 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, etc. Conducting regular market visits to check the assortment available in the country and encouraging 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, pricing each item, and submitting forecasting and 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.

Desired candidate profile

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, structured, and know how to prioritize. You consider yourself someone who delivers solutions rather than creating bottlenecks. You are willing to do whatever is necessary for the project to succeed, including working on the warehouse floor when short-staffed to make a customer delivery or to take customer calls. No job is too insignificant, and no detail is too small for you. You can interact with senior-level executives and manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders. You are energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job. You have excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy being hands-on with several tools. Additionally, you possess robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission. Language skills: fluent in English is mandatory; Arabic can be a plus.

Company industry

Internet, e-commerce, dotcom

Department / functional area

Buying, purchase, procurement, vendor management

Keywords

Assistant Category Manager