Assistant Category Manager

6 days ago

Doha, Qatar talabat Full time

**Company Description**
talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.
**Job Description** What's On Your Plate**
- Full Ownership over the category management role in terms of Assortments, Pricing, Offers and Supply.
- Responsible for monitoring the economic performance of the assigned departments /categories across sales, gross margin, profit and loss and consistency with the company's commercial strategy.
- Increase the contribution of **Private Label & Imports**within tmart business.
- Keep a track of the latest trend of products all over the world and sourcing them to Qatar.
- Increase the profitability within multiple categories by introducing Private Label from local/international producers.
- Accountable for the performance of all imported items and marketing of these items on the app and social media.
- 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 2-4 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.
- Good knowledge and experience in Imported products. 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 have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be hands-on with several tools such as MS Excel
- Language skills: Fluent in English, Arabic is a plus.

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