Category Manager - Retail
La Poire -
Cairo, EgyptPosted 7 years ago121Applicants for1 open position
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Job Description
Job Purpose:
Responsible for managing a product category for a product or range. Optimize sales for a particular group of products.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing a product category for a product or range. Optimize sales for a particular group of products.
- Implement the category strategy plan and ensure that execution is in alignment with overall category strategy .
- Review product assortment and product penetration.
- Maintain lead role in consistently gathering local market data (including trends).Give clear feedback & suggest according to business and market dynamics.
- Report new product opportunities and provide data on competitor
- Facilitate product training, new product introductions, and lead cuttings with sales staff.
- Ensure product message is aligned with overall strategy.
- Work closely with the operations team, conducting planning meetings to identify accounts and categories and their potential opportunities
- Working on exceeding customer expectations and profitable growth.
- Ensure that categories meet and exceed strategic plans
- Improve the speed of inventory turnover within the category.
- Responsible for attaining budgeted sales, gross margin, and building market share within categories. Including promotion assistants, merchandise planners, inventory planners and financial planners
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration or Relevant.
- Experience in Retail field. Including 2 years of experience as an Area retail manager. A thorough understanding of retail insights is essential.
- Very Good command of English language (Speaking, reading and writing).
