Assistant Category Manager

Role Summary 

Focus on growing our own Grocery Store tMart which is the regions 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!

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 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 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 are able to 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 English and Arabic.

Remote Work:

No

Employment Type:

Contract